[TAG] Need a shell regex; having problems

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:11:37PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> 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
> '''

" 'Oh', said Pooh. "

Why not use dots for the first three as well, then?

Cheers,
-- jra
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