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crazysantaclaus
crazysantaclaus

Reputation: 623

Find file names based on multiple occurrences of a character

I'm trying to figure out why my grep command does not work, which should pick those file names within a folder, that have more than 2 _in their name:

test_file_1.tsv
test_file_2.tsv
test_fi_le_3.tsv

I'm running in that folder

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f | grep -E "_{3,}"

but it returns nothing instead of

test_fi_le_3.tsv

?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 190

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785068

Problem is that "_{3,}" matches 3 or more consecutive underscores.

However, you don't even need a grep here and use glob pattern in -name option of find as this one:

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*_*_*'


./test_file_1.tsv
./test_file_2.tsv
./test_fi_le_3.tsv

Upvotes: 3

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