I have a data directory that is now home to lotsa-junk[tm]. notjunk
directories include all directories that start with 5 numbers. This
means that I need to exclude anything that DOESN'T start with 5 numbers.
I've been through the man pages and they DO talk about patterns, but
each in/ex-clude line can take only ONE pattern each. The patterns that
I see don't seem regex-ish. There are the --include-from and
--exclude-from options... hmm.. I guess the best way seems to be a
pre-server option to generate a file-include file that would contain the
directory names of those directories that commence with numeric
characters.. Well I haven't been able to get a regex working with find!
So far the following options don't work..
find . -regex ^[\d]{5}.+ -maxdepth 1
find . -regex '^[\d]{5}.+' -maxdepth 1
find . -regex './[\d]{5}.+' -maxdepth 1
find . -regex '^\.\/[\d].*' -maxdepth 1
find . -regex '^\.\/[\d].+' -maxdepth 1
Does anyone else build an exclude list with regedit?
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Richard
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