On May 2, 11:15 pm, Ryan <ryan.fairch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 2, 5:08 pm, Ryan <ryan.fairch...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On May 2, 5:05 pm, Ed Morton <mor...@lsupcaemnt.com> wrote:
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> > > On 5/2/2008 4:01 PM, Ryan wrote:
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> > > > On May 2, 4:56 pm, Ed Morton <mor...@lsupcaemnt.com> wrote:
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> > > >>On 5/2/2008 3:47 PM, Ryan wrote:
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> > > >>>On May 2, 4:41 pm, OldSchool <scott.my...@macys.com> wrote:
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> > > >>>>On May 2, 4:22 pm, Ryan <ryan.fairch...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > >>>>>This is driving me nuts i am trying to use the following:
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> > > >>>>>find . -exec grep -l "[0-9]\+\." '{}' \;
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> > > >>>>>to find all files that have a number before a "."
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> > > >>>>>It matches both somefile_ 1.mp3 AND somefile_ .mp3.
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> > > >>>>>Why is this and can you suggest a better pattern? I a=only want to
> > > >>>>>match the first result above.
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> > > >>>>find <path> -name '*[0-9]\.*]
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> > > >>>>your example finds everything and runs grep on it?????
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> > > >>>This is within a certain directory
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> > > >>Then add "-maxdepth 1", or use "ls" instead of "find". Depends what you want to
> > > >>do with matching sub-directories and/or your other requirements.
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> > > >> Ed.
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> > > > Maybe I should explain the ultimate outcome here. I have a bunch of
> > > > duplicate mp3 files that all follow "song 1.mp3", originals are of the
> > > > forms "song.mp3". I simply want to find them and delete them. Am I
> > > > in the right direction here.
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> > > In the original, can "song" end in a number?
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> > > If so, can "song" contain a space before the number?
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> > > Do the duplicate files all end in "<space><number[s]>.mp3"?
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> > > Ed.
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> > The original might end in a number however the duplicates have had
> > [space]1 added before (.mp3|m4a).
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> after banging my head too much i got it.
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> find . -name '*[0-9]\.*' -exec mv {} </path/to/move/to> \;

I think you don't need "\." because -name options wants a pattern and
not a regular expression.

find . -name "* 1.???"