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From:
Sudarsan Raghavan
Date:
April 2, 2002 22:08
Subject:
Re: grep
Message ID:
3CAA9C46.30FF927D@india.hp.com
Mandar Rahurkar wrote:

> Hi,
>   I need to select particular files from list that looks like this :
>
> 2168a5_vow_band_1.fea
> 169b2_vow_band_1.fea
> 2168d6_vow_band_1.fea
> 169g3_vow_band_1.fea
> neutral.txt
>
> This is how the list if files look like.I need files with only g for
> eg
> I can do it in linux as follows :
> but this doesnt work in perl :

     Use the glob operator (perldoc -f glob and perldoc File::Glob)
     For e.g. to list files that start with 16
     perl -e 'print "$_\n" while (<16*>)'
                                                        ^^^^^
                                                       This is the how
the glob operator is used for this e.g.


>
> ls ???[g][^1] *.fea
> ls ???[^g][^1] *.fea
>
> I tried using :
> exec(`ls ???[d][^1]*.fea > temp.neutral`) in perl doesnt work.
>  Please help...
>
> Many Thanks
> Mandar
>
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