[lug] find command or similar

[Kenneth D. Weinert]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:27:54AM -0600, Ed Hill wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 11:19, Kenneth D. Weinert wrote:
> > Here's a little shell script that should do the trick. I use locate
> > because it's faster, but it could be replaced with:
> > 
> > find / -type f -print
> > 
> > locate \* | while read path;do
> >   file=$(basename $path); 
> >   res=$(echo $file | egrep "[[:alnum:]]{10,15}"); 
> >   if [ ! -z $res ];then 
> >     echo $path;
> >   fi;
> > done
> > 
> > Where I have {10,15} you could put {200,} for your first case and
> > {200.240} for your second.
> > 
> > Note that the [[:alnum;]] expression might not match all filenames -
> > you can do a "man egrep" and look at the regular expression syntax to
> > make it more closely conform to what you might find on your system.
> 
> 
> Not only is:
> 
>   find . -name '*' -depth -printf "%f\n" | egrep '.{201,}'
> 
> a "one-liner" but it overcomes the pattern-matching problems mentioned
> above.
> 
> Heh, I win.  ;-)

Sort of - replace the [[:alnum:]] in mine with . (and I should have
thought of that) and I turn back into the winner because you know
*where* the file is, not just its name.

Of course, that wasn't part of the spec, so I guess it's a tie :)

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