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Find all the files in /etc that have .config and starts with letter a to the files that starts with letter k, that's means all the files from a to k in /etc .config.










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  • Hi and welcome. What have you tried? Where are you having trouble?
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  • maybe echo /etc/[a-k]*.conflig*?
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Find all the files in /etc that have .config and starts with letter a to the files that starts with letter k, that's means all the files from a to k in /etc .config.










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  • Hi and welcome. What have you tried? Where are you having trouble?
    – Andy Dalton
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  • maybe echo /etc/[a-k]*.conflig*?
    – Doug O'Neal
    Sep 5 at 17:24












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Find all the files in /etc that have .config and starts with letter a to the files that starts with letter k, that's means all the files from a to k in /etc .config.










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Find all the files in /etc that have .config and starts with letter a to the files that starts with letter k, that's means all the files from a to k in /etc .config.







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  • Hi and welcome. What have you tried? Where are you having trouble?
    – Andy Dalton
    Sep 5 at 17:23










  • maybe echo /etc/[a-k]*.conflig*?
    – Doug O'Neal
    Sep 5 at 17:24
















  • Hi and welcome. What have you tried? Where are you having trouble?
    – Andy Dalton
    Sep 5 at 17:23










  • maybe echo /etc/[a-k]*.conflig*?
    – Doug O'Neal
    Sep 5 at 17:24















Hi and welcome. What have you tried? Where are you having trouble?
– Andy Dalton
Sep 5 at 17:23




Hi and welcome. What have you tried? Where are you having trouble?
– Andy Dalton
Sep 5 at 17:23












maybe echo /etc/[a-k]*.conflig*?
– Doug O'Neal
Sep 5 at 17:24




maybe echo /etc/[a-k]*.conflig*?
– Doug O'Neal
Sep 5 at 17:24










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Those filenames would match the filename globbing pattern [a-k]*.config ("starts with any of the letters a through to k, and ends with the filename suffix .config").



If you're only interested in files located in /etc, then the following command would list these files:



printf '%sn' /etc/[a-k]*.config


That command would also list directories and symbolic links (etc.) that matched the pattern. To restrict the list to only regular files (and symbolic links to regular files), then use a loop:



for pathname in /etc/[a-k]*.config; do
[ ! -f "$pathname" ] && continue
printf '%sn' "$pathname"
done


If you are interested in looking into subdirectories of /etc and to restrict the search to only include regular files, then use find:



find /etc -type f -name '[a-k]*.config'


This would look in and below /etc for regular files (-type f) that has filenames matching the given pattern.




The result of the commands above would be a newline-delimited list of pathnames of files. This list should probably not be used as an intermediate list of pathnames if you're planning on doing further processing of the files. Instead, use the loop above to process the files individually, or use find with its -exec option to process them. This is because the delimiter used in the output, newline, is also a valid character in Unix filenames (granted, you very rarely see it in use, but none the less).






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  • Thank you so much !, that was so helpful !
    – Alnasir Khalid
    Sep 5 at 17:39










  • You may want to set the locale to C for that [a-k] to match on [abcdefghijk] only. Especially true with bash where [a-k] also matches on [ABCDEFGHIJ] or [BCDEFGHIJK] in most locales at least on GNU systems. Or use [abcdefghijk]
    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Sep 6 at 8:20











  • [ -f filename ] also matches on symlinks to regular files. Just use zsh and /etc/[a-k]*.config(.) that has none of those issues (the [a-k] range is based on codepoint tere, (.) is for regular file only, use (-.) for regular file after symlink resolution.
    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Sep 6 at 8:22










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Those filenames would match the filename globbing pattern [a-k]*.config ("starts with any of the letters a through to k, and ends with the filename suffix .config").



If you're only interested in files located in /etc, then the following command would list these files:



printf '%sn' /etc/[a-k]*.config


That command would also list directories and symbolic links (etc.) that matched the pattern. To restrict the list to only regular files (and symbolic links to regular files), then use a loop:



for pathname in /etc/[a-k]*.config; do
[ ! -f "$pathname" ] && continue
printf '%sn' "$pathname"
done


If you are interested in looking into subdirectories of /etc and to restrict the search to only include regular files, then use find:



find /etc -type f -name '[a-k]*.config'


This would look in and below /etc for regular files (-type f) that has filenames matching the given pattern.




The result of the commands above would be a newline-delimited list of pathnames of files. This list should probably not be used as an intermediate list of pathnames if you're planning on doing further processing of the files. Instead, use the loop above to process the files individually, or use find with its -exec option to process them. This is because the delimiter used in the output, newline, is also a valid character in Unix filenames (granted, you very rarely see it in use, but none the less).






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  • Thank you so much !, that was so helpful !
    – Alnasir Khalid
    Sep 5 at 17:39










  • You may want to set the locale to C for that [a-k] to match on [abcdefghijk] only. Especially true with bash where [a-k] also matches on [ABCDEFGHIJ] or [BCDEFGHIJK] in most locales at least on GNU systems. Or use [abcdefghijk]
    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Sep 6 at 8:20











  • [ -f filename ] also matches on symlinks to regular files. Just use zsh and /etc/[a-k]*.config(.) that has none of those issues (the [a-k] range is based on codepoint tere, (.) is for regular file only, use (-.) for regular file after symlink resolution.
    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Sep 6 at 8:22














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Those filenames would match the filename globbing pattern [a-k]*.config ("starts with any of the letters a through to k, and ends with the filename suffix .config").



If you're only interested in files located in /etc, then the following command would list these files:



printf '%sn' /etc/[a-k]*.config


That command would also list directories and symbolic links (etc.) that matched the pattern. To restrict the list to only regular files (and symbolic links to regular files), then use a loop:



for pathname in /etc/[a-k]*.config; do
[ ! -f "$pathname" ] && continue
printf '%sn' "$pathname"
done


If you are interested in looking into subdirectories of /etc and to restrict the search to only include regular files, then use find:



find /etc -type f -name '[a-k]*.config'


This would look in and below /etc for regular files (-type f) that has filenames matching the given pattern.




The result of the commands above would be a newline-delimited list of pathnames of files. This list should probably not be used as an intermediate list of pathnames if you're planning on doing further processing of the files. Instead, use the loop above to process the files individually, or use find with its -exec option to process them. This is because the delimiter used in the output, newline, is also a valid character in Unix filenames (granted, you very rarely see it in use, but none the less).






share|improve this answer






















  • Thank you so much !, that was so helpful !
    – Alnasir Khalid
    Sep 5 at 17:39










  • You may want to set the locale to C for that [a-k] to match on [abcdefghijk] only. Especially true with bash where [a-k] also matches on [ABCDEFGHIJ] or [BCDEFGHIJK] in most locales at least on GNU systems. Or use [abcdefghijk]
    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Sep 6 at 8:20











  • [ -f filename ] also matches on symlinks to regular files. Just use zsh and /etc/[a-k]*.config(.) that has none of those issues (the [a-k] range is based on codepoint tere, (.) is for regular file only, use (-.) for regular file after symlink resolution.
    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Sep 6 at 8:22












up vote
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up vote
1
down vote



accepted






Those filenames would match the filename globbing pattern [a-k]*.config ("starts with any of the letters a through to k, and ends with the filename suffix .config").



If you're only interested in files located in /etc, then the following command would list these files:



printf '%sn' /etc/[a-k]*.config


That command would also list directories and symbolic links (etc.) that matched the pattern. To restrict the list to only regular files (and symbolic links to regular files), then use a loop:



for pathname in /etc/[a-k]*.config; do
[ ! -f "$pathname" ] && continue
printf '%sn' "$pathname"
done


If you are interested in looking into subdirectories of /etc and to restrict the search to only include regular files, then use find:



find /etc -type f -name '[a-k]*.config'


This would look in and below /etc for regular files (-type f) that has filenames matching the given pattern.




The result of the commands above would be a newline-delimited list of pathnames of files. This list should probably not be used as an intermediate list of pathnames if you're planning on doing further processing of the files. Instead, use the loop above to process the files individually, or use find with its -exec option to process them. This is because the delimiter used in the output, newline, is also a valid character in Unix filenames (granted, you very rarely see it in use, but none the less).






share|improve this answer














Those filenames would match the filename globbing pattern [a-k]*.config ("starts with any of the letters a through to k, and ends with the filename suffix .config").



If you're only interested in files located in /etc, then the following command would list these files:



printf '%sn' /etc/[a-k]*.config


That command would also list directories and symbolic links (etc.) that matched the pattern. To restrict the list to only regular files (and symbolic links to regular files), then use a loop:



for pathname in /etc/[a-k]*.config; do
[ ! -f "$pathname" ] && continue
printf '%sn' "$pathname"
done


If you are interested in looking into subdirectories of /etc and to restrict the search to only include regular files, then use find:



find /etc -type f -name '[a-k]*.config'


This would look in and below /etc for regular files (-type f) that has filenames matching the given pattern.




The result of the commands above would be a newline-delimited list of pathnames of files. This list should probably not be used as an intermediate list of pathnames if you're planning on doing further processing of the files. Instead, use the loop above to process the files individually, or use find with its -exec option to process them. This is because the delimiter used in the output, newline, is also a valid character in Unix filenames (granted, you very rarely see it in use, but none the less).







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  • Thank you so much !, that was so helpful !
    – Alnasir Khalid
    Sep 5 at 17:39










  • You may want to set the locale to C for that [a-k] to match on [abcdefghijk] only. Especially true with bash where [a-k] also matches on [ABCDEFGHIJ] or [BCDEFGHIJK] in most locales at least on GNU systems. Or use [abcdefghijk]
    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Sep 6 at 8:20











  • [ -f filename ] also matches on symlinks to regular files. Just use zsh and /etc/[a-k]*.config(.) that has none of those issues (the [a-k] range is based on codepoint tere, (.) is for regular file only, use (-.) for regular file after symlink resolution.
    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Sep 6 at 8:22
















  • Thank you so much !, that was so helpful !
    – Alnasir Khalid
    Sep 5 at 17:39










  • You may want to set the locale to C for that [a-k] to match on [abcdefghijk] only. Especially true with bash where [a-k] also matches on [ABCDEFGHIJ] or [BCDEFGHIJK] in most locales at least on GNU systems. Or use [abcdefghijk]
    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Sep 6 at 8:20











  • [ -f filename ] also matches on symlinks to regular files. Just use zsh and /etc/[a-k]*.config(.) that has none of those issues (the [a-k] range is based on codepoint tere, (.) is for regular file only, use (-.) for regular file after symlink resolution.
    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Sep 6 at 8:22















Thank you so much !, that was so helpful !
– Alnasir Khalid
Sep 5 at 17:39




Thank you so much !, that was so helpful !
– Alnasir Khalid
Sep 5 at 17:39












You may want to set the locale to C for that [a-k] to match on [abcdefghijk] only. Especially true with bash where [a-k] also matches on [ABCDEFGHIJ] or [BCDEFGHIJK] in most locales at least on GNU systems. Or use [abcdefghijk]
– Stéphane Chazelas
Sep 6 at 8:20





You may want to set the locale to C for that [a-k] to match on [abcdefghijk] only. Especially true with bash where [a-k] also matches on [ABCDEFGHIJ] or [BCDEFGHIJK] in most locales at least on GNU systems. Or use [abcdefghijk]
– Stéphane Chazelas
Sep 6 at 8:20













[ -f filename ] also matches on symlinks to regular files. Just use zsh and /etc/[a-k]*.config(.) that has none of those issues (the [a-k] range is based on codepoint tere, (.) is for regular file only, use (-.) for regular file after symlink resolution.
– Stéphane Chazelas
Sep 6 at 8:22




[ -f filename ] also matches on symlinks to regular files. Just use zsh and /etc/[a-k]*.config(.) that has none of those issues (the [a-k] range is based on codepoint tere, (.) is for regular file only, use (-.) for regular file after symlink resolution.
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Sep 6 at 8:22

















 

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