A little regex help please ...

[Mauricio Vergara Ereche]

El Lunes, 10 de Julio de 2006 10:49, Brian D. McGrew escribió:
> Morning all,

hi!

> I'm in a shell script (hey, it's dark in here) in the middle of a 'for f
> in *' loop and I walking through a list of directories that looks like:
>
> 5.1
> 5.1.1
> 5.1.1-LINUX
> 5.1.1-FC3
> 5.1.1-RH73
> 5.1.1_debug
> 5.1.1_debug_O1G
> 5.1.2
> 5.1.2-LINUX
> 5.1.2-FC3
> 5.1.2-RH73
> 5.1.2_debug
> 5.1.2_debug_O1G
>
> All of these start with a number.  I'm looking for a simple regex to
> pick off everything up to and including the last numerical value and
> throw away everything after the last numerical value.

you could try
for f in 5.1{,.1,.2}; do
(That will expand to 5.1, 5.1.1 and 5.1.2)

Did I understood well what you want?

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Mauricio Vergara Ereche                   User #188365 counter.li.org