hi,

i'm having problem like this.
i wish to grep some keyword from certain files in one directory.

let's say i have a lot of files in my directory with the name of file.1 file.2 file.3 ...... file.500
i only wish to grep the keyword from file.20, file.21, file.23 .... file.50

i tried the following command:
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grep 'keyword' file.[20-50]
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i used the command above and it returns no value.
i found that [20-50] is not the appropriate way to specify file.
anyone can guide me to this problem?

Hi,

The range specifier [min-max] applies to one character only. So [20-50] is not valid because there's no single character that represents '20' or '50'. [2-5] would be valid for the range file.2, file.3, file.4, file.5 but that's only part of the extension looked for. Thus the specifier '[2-5][0-9]' comes close but also returns the file.51, ...file.59 range so I would define the wanted range like this:Regards

i see !!!!
thanks for the help! have been figuring out for a long time!

i got another answer too
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grep 'pattern' file.@([234][0-9]|50)
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well, it's doing the same thing anyway

thanks !

works as well.

pls i do i get simple shell script on how to monitor last transaction on the unix platform using seibel and genesy application and oracle db as the backend

You may want to ask your question in the Oracle forum if you want to monitor Oracle transactions, or find a suitable forum for Siebel/Genesy (whatever the latter is).