[clug] Shell glob for a range of numbers?

[Martin Pool]

On  8 Jan 2004 Kim Holburn <kim.holburn at anu.edu.au> wrote:

> At 10:16 AM +1000 2004/01/08, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >It's always bugged me that I can't glob a range of numbers (that I know of).
> >
> >I've got a bunch of files, named say argus.log.5.gz -> argus.log.21.gz
> >
> >I wish there was a ".." operator/regex thingy.

for i in `seq 5 21`; do cp argus.log.$i.gz /tmp; done

-- 
Martin 
                               linux.conf.au -- Adelaide, January 2004
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