Regular Expression Help

[shmeesa]

Hi,

I was wondering if there's any way to write a regular expression that searches for files with a range of multiple digits.

i.e. Look for files between 756 and 867 inclusively without finding files like 984 or 358

Thanks!!

[Roxoff]

We get this sort of question all the time from people wanting help with their homework. As you are already aware (you did read the forum rules, didn't you...) homework questions are not allowed.

Now I'm not suggesting that you might be doing homework when asking this question, but others will be, so I'm not going to answer this directly. But I'll give you a couple of good pointers:

1. the man page for grep has quite a good section on regular expressions
2. it might have something to do with the square bracket ']'.

[danielsmw]

Ditto what Roxoff said about the forum rules, but as another pointer... consider using pattern capturing with parentheses, especially if you have perl available, and think about what you could do once you've retrieved the values.

[shmeesa]

Thanks for the help!! =D