From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: "ZSH User List" <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>,
"Thomas Köhler" <jean-luc@picard.franken.de>
Subject: Re: something simple (I hope)
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:49:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030804154954.GL38843@dan.emsphone.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030804153810.GA17793@spiegl.de>
In the last episode (Aug 04), Andy Spiegl said:
> > > I want to put all files that match the regex pattern
> > > "^/var/tmp/exec\.[0-9]+$"
> > > into a list that I can then use in a foreach loop.
>
> > for i in /var/tmp/exec.[0-9][0-9]* ; do echo $i ; done
> Thanks but I really need a list (with a name).
> Actually in the meantime I found out how to do that:
> files=(/var/tmp/exec.[[:digit:]]*)
>
> But what is still bugging me is that this also matches files like
> /var/tmp/exec.01234.something
>
> I can't figure out how to tell zsh that there shouldn't be anything _after_
> digits. What is the zsh-equivalent of a $ in regular expressions?
Your problem isn't the lack of "$" (glob patterns always anchor to the
start and end so ^ and $ operators are unneeded), it's your use of "*".
"*" in a glob pattern means "match any character", and is equivalent to
the regex ".*" .
Try "/var/tmp/exec.<->". <-> is the <x-y> numeric range operator with
no minimum or maximum number, so it matches any numeric value.
The zsh equivalent to the regex "+" is "##", so you could also use
"/var/tmp/exec.[0-9]##" (make sure EXTENDED_GLOB is set).
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-04 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-04 14:33 Andy Spiegl
2003-08-04 15:10 ` Clint Adams
2003-08-04 15:12 ` Thomas Köhler
2003-08-04 15:38 ` Andy Spiegl
2003-08-04 15:49 ` Dan Nelson [this message]
2003-08-04 15:51 ` Thomas Köhler
2003-08-04 15:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-08-04 15:55 ` Peter Stephenson
2003-08-04 16:01 ` Andy Spiegl
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