On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 23:43:40 +0100
> Rob Dixon <rob.di...@gmx.com> wrote:
>
> > > The file's name is \d{6}.htm
> >
> > do you mean that literal name, or do you want to include *.htm files
> > that start with six decimal digits? Jim Gibson has assumed the former,
> > while Shawn, the latter.
>
> It would be difficult to get a file with a backslash in it.
>
$ touch "\\d{6}.htm"
$ ls
\d{6}.htm
