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RE: Regular Expressions from Bash Shell


At Wednesday, September 01, 2004 5:17 PM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> 
>> I want to use grep on all the FORTRAN source code files in the
>> current directory whose file names do not contain a "_" character.
>> How do I do this? 
>> 
>> I'm using the extension of ".f" to designate FORTRAN.
> 
> Disclaimer: this is not a shell programming support forum, and the
> above post is off-topic for this list, since it asks a general shell
> question not related to Cygwin.
> 
> But, since I'm sending this e-mail anyway (and I hope this in no way
> encourages similar future posts):
> 
> find . -name \*_\* -o -name \*.f -print | xargs grep EXPRESSION

I think a "!" was forgotten.

find . \( ! -name \*_\* \) -o -name \*.f -print | xargs grep EXPRESSION

The parentheses may not be needed -- you can try it both ways.

> Again, the above is *not* Cygwin-specific.
> 	Igor

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