Alex:
> Do the { } work for the `find` command also? I was having the same
> problems the other day and ended up using a grep expression to narrow
> down the results of a find because of the errors with [ ].
The curly brackets are expanded by the shell to allow multiple pattern
matches. Think of it like the parentheses in regular expressions:
bash = {this,or,that}
Perl = (this|or|that)
I'm not sure what you mean about using them with find, but I suppose you
could do something like this:
find -type f | grep -E "(this|or|that)"
which would use grep to match any of those patterns in your filenames.
HTH,
Jeff
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