Need help with sed or awk and regular expressions

[Michael Ault]

Excellent, so to pass in a list of file names to be
converted you would pipe the results of the ls command
through this? We have a list of about 100 files that
need to be renamed.

Mike

--- inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/1/05, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > $ echo $FOO
> > 44.MR3M01J.AF_TBL_COL_1.2005-06-30.DAT
> > $ echo ${FOO//+(44.MR3M01J.|_[12]*[0-9-])}
> > AF_TBL_COL.DAT
> 
> Ack! That last hypen is leftover harmless cruft. All
> one needs is
> 
> $ echo ${FOO//+(44.MR3M01J.|_[12]*[0-9])}
> AF_TBL_COL.DAT
> 
> My first iteration was
> 
> $ echo ${FOO//+(44.MR3M01J.|_[12].*([0-9-]))}
> AF_TBL_COL.DAT
> 
> which may be a more clear expression to match the
> second part of the
> string to delete.
> Regular expressions give just about everyone a
> headache. :)
> 
> John
> 
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Michael R. Ault
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