Contents
- 1 What is the command to list all the files in the current directory whose second character is a digit?
- 2 Which command will display the lines in the file Teknoscript txt that are not comment lines #)? In Unix?
- 3 How can I get a list of files in a directory?
- 4 How to find all files that contain status.txt?
What is the command to list all the files in the current directory whose second character is a digit?
?[0-9]* only expands to names in the current directory that has a digit as their second character. ls , when getting a directory name, will obviously show the contents of that directory, which means that you will have to tell ls to not not do that.
Which command will display the lines in the file Teknoscript txt that are not comment lines #)? In Unix?
Use the grep command to display the lines from the file teknoscript. txt that are comment lines (the comment lines are the lines that start with #).
How to display contents of all files under a directory?
You can use the * character to match all the files in your current directory. cat * will display the content of all the files. If you want to display only files with .txt extension, you can use cat *.txt, or if you want to display all the files whose filenames start with “file” like your example, you can use cat file*.
How to search for all the files starting with the name?
In this case, tree itself supports wildcards. You can use find command to search files with pattern The above command will search the file that starts with abc under the current working directory. -name ‘abc’ will list the files that are exact match. Eg: abc
How can I get a list of files in a directory?
You’ll need to start by accessing the command line. Below are directions on how to do that in Windows. Note that if you are using Stata, you can access the command line by starting the command with a “!” in other words, do get a list of files in the current directory one would type “! dir”.
How to find all files that contain status.txt?
Examines your directory structure and finds all files named STATUS.txt. reads the file and executes mycommand depending on what the file contains. If you want to extend the script later with sorting, you can find all the interesting files first, save them to a list, sort the list and execute the commands on the sorted list.