Hi Justin, Following up with a web page reference on regular expressions. I'm sure there are better examples around, but try this one on using regular expressions from the University of Virginia:
http://etext.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/unix/regex.html and look through some of the examples. Interact with the groups of characters to get the search syntax character by character. Also, some expressions like {num} (meant to indicate a number inside of right and left braces) indicate match the previous element the specified number of times, while {min,max} indicate that "min" and "max" are also number variables inside right and left braces, and that you match the previous element at least min times but no more than max times. Surprisingly hard to find a good web page on regular expressions that doesn't have lots of inaccessible links or go off into discussions of perl or python or grep or something else. Even this page is more than you need to read through. Just use it for some of the basic matching syntax for filenames and practice with some harmless "ls" commands to list files. HTH Cheers, Esther P.S. In my previous post example I should have said that "?" matches any single string or the null string, too. Justin asked: >I generally use the mv command in terminal to move stuff around but I >have wanted to be able to move multiple files at once. Does anyone >know if there is a syntax that you can use to indicate multiple files >for an action like mv or cp? Perhaps a , between the paths, or >something? > >Regards >Justin Harford
