Re: bash 1 liner help

[Stefan O'Rear <stefanor@cox.net>]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:48:39PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> I have a set of files:
> I wish to play only the file 08-12*.ogg.
> If I wanted to play files 07-09 I would
> do something like
> 
> mplayer 0[7-9]*.ogg
> 
> How can I use regular expressions to play files
> 08-12?

$ mplayer {0[89],1[0-2]}*.ogg

$ info '(bash)Brace Expansion'

===

Mplayer cannot tell any difference between:

mplayer 0*.ogg

and

mplayer 05file.ogg 06file.ogg 07file.ogg

and

mplayer 0[56]file.ogg 07file.ogg

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