Re: Glob for specific length?

[Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron Davies wrote:
> Is there a glob for files with names of e.g. exactly thirty
> characters? sort of the equiv of /^.{30}$/

Yes. See zshexpn(1) for (#cN,M).

Example:

% ls -lad ls -lad /?(#c3)
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Nov  2 23:31 /bin
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root   3460 Nov 22 23:12 /dev
drwxr-xr-x 161 root root  12288 Nov 22 14:20 /etc
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root  12288 Oct 22 09:43 /lib
drwxrwxr-x   8 root staff  4096 Nov 13 22:26 /mnt
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root   4096 Oct  4 11:05 /opt
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root   4096 Apr 29  2010 /srv
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root      0 Oct 22 09:50 /sys
drwxrwxrwt  22 root root  12288 Nov 23 09:15 /tmp
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root   4096 Oct  3 12:31 /usr
drwxr-xr-x  16 root root   4096 Jul  1 19:41 /var

Regards, Frank

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