[clug] Shell glob for a range of numbers?

[Kim Holburn]

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).

Actually I think bash has a shopt that will let you use regex instead of glob.

>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.

glob has "?"
as in :

cp argus.log.?.gz argus.log.[12]?.gz /tmp

>
>I'd like to be able to go "cp argus.log.[5..21].gz /tmp" or something like
>that. Unless some regex guru can show me a way of using [] expansion that I
>didn't know of...
>
>Andrew


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