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WhereAreYouSyntax

Reputation: 163

Using find command on in a Bash Script to find integers

I need to find and archive files with a certain file name e.g. ABC_000.jpg

find ~/my-documents/ -iname "ABC_***.JPG" -type f -exec cp {} ~/my-documents/archive/ \;

however I can not seem to find a way to limit the find function to find only 3 integers as there are files that are named ABC_CBA.jpg that I do not want included

Upvotes: 3

Views: 250

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785098

Try this find:

find ~/my-documents/ -iname "ABC_[0-9][0-9][0-9].JPG" -type f -exec cp '{}' ~/my-documents/archive/ \;

EDIT: Or using regex:

find -E ~/my-documents/ -iregex ".*ABC_[0-9]{3}\.JPG" -type f -exec cp '{}' ~/my-documents/archive/ \;

Upvotes: 6

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