On Friday 08 August 2008 18:25:06 Hanafin, Jenny wrote:
> I've tried that egrep expression and egrep hung, so I put quotes around it
> and it worked, but returned no matches. I'm not finding that egrep is any
> more consistent than grep, though, this is a result I got from playing
> around a bit with your suggested expression:
>> [219]: ls /data/gps/TEMP | egrep '^[[:alpha:]]{4}[0-9]{3}[a-x]'
> MACE213h.08n MACE213h.08o mace.lst VLNT160z.08n VLNT160z.08o
> VLNT213l.08n VLNT213l.08o VLNT.apr vlnt.lst
>> so egrep is still returning 'vlnt.lst' which contains no digits.
It looks as if you have an alias for ls, alias ls="ls -C". Have a look at the
output of
ls /data/gps/TEMP | egrep --color '^[[:alpha:]]{4}[0-9]{3}[a-x]'
That will highlight the matching part for you.
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