Re: [Help-bash] if exist

[John McKown]

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Greg Wooledge <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 07:46:08AM -0500, John McKown wrote:
> > find "${dat0}" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -regexptype egrep -regex
> > '.*[0-9]$' | xargs -I {} cp -a {} "${dat1}"
>
> Why would you use
> -regexptype egrep -regex '.*[0-9]$'
>
> when you could simply (and portably!) use
> -name '*[0-9]'
>

​I'm insane? [grin]. Or I've been brain damaged by too much PERL?​



>
> That said, with -mindepth 1 and -maxdepth 1, it looks like you are not
> recursing at all.  So you could just use a glob.
>
> cd "$someplace" || exit
> for file in *[0-9]; do
>   base=${file%[0-9]}
>   whatever "$file" "$base"
>   ....
> done
>



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