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kachaffeous
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 07 Jun 2002
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 Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 9:04 pm Post subject: Help! Regular expression to find core files |
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Trying to get a regular expression to to match core files but not regular files(using find). This is what I'm trying:
I want to match the following: (core or core followed by a period and any amount of numbers)
core
core.1
core.1234
but not: (core followed by a ext, a core man page or word with core)
core.xpm
core.1.z
coreword
I have tried the following expressions
| Code: | | find . -name core\.?[0-9]* |
This matches core.1234 but not core or core.1
| Code: | | find . -name "core*[0-9]" |
This matches core.1 and core.1234 but not core.
I have tried many more but just can't get the right combo. |
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rac
Bodhisattva
Joined: 30 May 2002
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Location: Japanifornia
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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How about: | Code: | | $ find ./ -regex '.*/core\(\.[0-9]+\)?' |
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kachaffeous
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | | find ./ -regex '.*/core\(\.[0-9]+\)?' |
Thanks! Works good on my gentoo box. Will test it tomorrow @ work on concurrent  |
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kachaffeous
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| Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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Well the Concurrent version of find doesn't support -regex so I'm using this which works (wanted a 1-liner though )
| Code: | for core in `find / -name "core*" -print ; do
file $core|grep -q "MSB core file"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
rm $core
fi
done
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rtn
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| Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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Or compile gnu find.
--rtn |
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