[TAG] Need a shell regex; having problems

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Wed Jun 2 23:57:37 MSD 2004


I'm trying to come up with a shell glob that will match this
traditional regex, and I don't know bash well enough to get it right;
any suggestions appreciated:

...\.[0-9]{2,5}aa.

sel.234aab
prc.37382aaa
out.8888aad

etc...

Is it possible to do this with one glob, or will I need to do more?
It's at the tail end of a path name with at least one * in it (as an
entire element), but I guess that doesn't make it especially difficult
if I need to break it out.

Cheers,
-- jra
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