Globbing means matching files by name patterns containing wildcards.
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ls, regexp and environment variable
I wanted to declare an environment variable that stocks all the extensions of video files so I can use it when using the shell.
I tried several things but never got it to work:
If in my .bash_profile ...
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Selecting files that start with $LETTER, or a letter later than $LETTER in the alphabet
Suppose a directory contains the following files:
afile1
afile2
bfile
cfile
ffile
ffile2
qfile
zfile
I am looking for an easy way of selecting all the files which start with $LETTER, or start with ...
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How can I search for a file with fixed name length using ls?
In a directory, I have files like
lazer_100506
lazer_100707
lazer_091211
lazer_110103
lazer_100406_temp
lazer_100622#delete
etc
How can I get a listing of only the first four files?
$ ls ...
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scp, globbing, and different shells
The other day at work I tried doing
scp remotehost:~/*.txt .
and I received an error about the *, *.txt file not found sorry, not at work and I forget the exact error
on my workstation I run zsh ...
