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Sep 14, 2020 at 9:39 history edited Hauke Laging CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aug 29, 2020 at 6:03 comment added G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' (Cont’d) …  (3) In the spirit of the first command, the find command can be shortened to find . -type f -regex '.*\.txt?' (assuming GNU find).
Aug 29, 2020 at 6:03 comment added G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' (1) The first two commands can be improved by the addition of the -d option.  As written now, if you have a directory called dir.tx, then either of those commands will list the contents of dir.tx in addition to listing the text files.  -d will prevent that.  (2) -d will help the second command in another way.  Currently, if it is executed in a directory where there are no text (.txt or .tx) files, it will list all the files in the current directory.  With -d, it will just say .. … (Cont’d)
S Aug 28, 2020 at 22:42 history edited G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' CC BY-SA 4.0
Fixed typo/logic error (incomplete command).
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Feb 9, 2016 at 22:52 history edited Hauke Laging CC BY-SA 3.0
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Feb 9, 2016 at 22:36 comment added shawn edward is there a way to do it without the shopt -s extglob
Feb 9, 2016 at 22:29 history answered Hauke Laging CC BY-SA 3.0