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I need to list all files that have first char within a specific range.
If I use Powershell I can do this with
gci [a-c]*
How can I do it from command line?
nick rulez
Posted 2011-05-22T09:46:25.760
Reputation: 285
list files with first char within specific range
Answers
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You may use the following command:
dir /b | findstr /R "^[a-c].*"
Jack Shainsky
Posted 2011-05-22T09:46:25.760
Reputation: 470
Thank you very much. It's perfect. :) I can use even different ranges. ^[a-c|e-h].*". Thanks again. – nick rulez – 2011-05-22T11:47:39.360
Can you explain me why it's necessary the dot after ]? – nick rulez – 2011-05-22T11:49:42.383
This is a regular expression meaning "anything that starts from a-c range followed by zero or more of any characters (the dot)". I'm used to specifying the regular expressions that way, but actually findstr util doesn't require using the full syntax here, so you may omit the dot and the asterisk. – Jack Shainsky – 2011-05-22T21:00:49.417