[TAG] Need a shell regex; having problems

[Thomas Adam]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:57:37 -0400
"Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> 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

```
???\.[0-9]{2,5}aa.*
''

This assumes for bash that you have:

```
shopt -s extglob
'''

-- Thomas Adam

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