I have a file names spp7 in several directiories CT30 CT31 ........
CT39
Using cat I want to view spp7 file in all the directories at a time
I tried
$ cat CT[30-39]/spp7
It shows
cat: CT[30-39]/spp7: No such file or directory
How can I do it
SimhaRupa Das
On 1/31/2008 11:10 PM, sant527@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a file names spp7 in several directiories CT30 CT31 ........
> CT39
>
> Using cat I want to view spp7 file in all the directories at a time
>
> I tried
>
> $ cat CT[30-39]/spp7
>
> It shows
>
> cat: CT[30-39]/spp7: No such file or directory
>
> How can I do it
>
> SimhaRupa Das
cat CT3[0-9]/spp7
Ed.
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:10:16 -0800 (PST), sant527@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a file names spp7 in several directiories CT30 CT31 ........
> CT39
>
> Using cat I want to view spp7 file in all the directories at a time
>
> I tried
>
> $ cat CT[30-39]/spp7
>
> It shows
>
> cat: CT[30-39]/spp7: No such file or directory
>
> How can I do it
[...]
[...] matches *one* character in the specified range. (here 3, 0
to 3 and 9).
cat CT3[0-9]/spp7
would have worked in that case, but in the more general case,
with zsh, you can do:
cat CT<30-39>/spp7
--
Stephane
sant527@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a file names spp7 in several directiories CT30 CT31 ........
> CT39
>
> Using cat I want to view spp7 file in all the directories at a time
>
> I tried
>
> $ cat CT[30-39]/spp7
$ cat CT{30..39}/spp7
might be a bash-ism though.
On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:53:17 +0100, pk wrote:
> sant527@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I have a file names spp7 in several directiories CT30 CT31 ........
>> CT39
>>
>> Using cat I want to view spp7 file in all the directories at a time
>>
>> I tried
>>
>> $ cat CT[30-39]/spp7
>
> $ cat CT{30..39}/spp7
>
> might be a bash-ism though.
That's a zshism recently added to ksh93 and bash. But that's not
a globbing operator. The above will expand to
cat CT30/spp7 CT31/spp7... CT39/spp7
regardless of whether the files exist or not.
It is different from zsh's
cat CT<30-39>/spp7
which will expand to the list of matching files.
--
Stephane
Stephane Chazelas wrote:
>> might be a bash-ism though.
>
> That's a zshism recently added to ksh93 and bash. But that's not
> a globbing operator. The above will expand to
>
> cat CT30/spp7 CT31/spp7... CT39/spp7
>
> regardless of whether the files exist or not.
>
> It is different from zsh's
>
> cat CT<30-39>/spp7
>
> which will expand to the list of matching files.
Well, the OP said that the files are indeed there. Good info though, thanks.
: I have a file names spp7 in several directiories CT30 CT31 ........
: CT39
:
: Using cat I want to view spp7 file in all the directories at a time
:
: I tried
:
: $ cat CT[30-39]/spp7
[a-z] is an alphabetical range. Your glob matches
CT0/spp7
CT1/spp7
CT2/spp7
CT3/spp7
CT9/spp7
what you want is
$ cat CT3[0-9]/spp7
Dan Mercer
:
: It shows
:
: cat: CT[30-39]/spp7: No such file or directory
:
: How can I do it
:
: SimhaRupa Das