On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 10:51, Ron Johnson wrote: > Try: > ls [0-9]* > > This is a minimalistic use of Regular Expressions. A simple script to > delete these sub-directories might be: > #!/bin/sh > for i in `ls [0-9]*`; do > echo $i > rm -rf $i > done >
Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for. For everyone else's benefit, the ls command needs a '-d' so the directory names are printed. The default for 'ls *' is to print the directory name followd by a colon and new line. So it should be `ls -d [0-9]*`. Thanks again, I was stuck thinking that Bash had to have a way to parse the names returned instead of using something that already does.
