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On 10/15/2005 3:38 PM Michael Kjorling wrote: |
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>On 2005-10-15 15:25 -0700, drew@××××××××××××××.net wrote: |
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>>I want to list the files in a directory that end in ".jpg" irregardless of |
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>>case. Thus after reading the bash man page, it seems I should be able to |
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>>issue a command something along the lines of "ls [*.[JjPpGg]]" or "ls |
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>>*.[JjPpGg]" but neither of these work and return a "No such file or |
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>>directory" message. What is the correct syntax for what I'm trying to do? |
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>ls *.[jJ][pP][gG] |
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>Each [] group matches a single character, so "ls *.[JjPpGg]" is "list |
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>all files that end in a period followed by one of J, j, P, p, G or g". |
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>Character ordering is irrelevant. |
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>Alternatively, you could do: |
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>ls | grep -i '.jpg$' |
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>Or: |
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>find . -maxdepth 1 -iname '*.jpg' |
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>The find or ls-pipe-grep versions get a LOT cleaner when you have many |
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>known characters with unknown case in the file name, but don't work if |
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>you need to discriminate based on case for some characters and not by |
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>others. |
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Thank you very much for your explanation. This works well!!! |
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Cheers, |
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Drew |
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