Little regex help please - solved - I think

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, tickticker wrote:

> i believe that the line:
> 
> cd /home/virtual; find [a-z]*/Maildir/.Trash/cur -mtime +30
> 
> gives me the list i need (#1 in your list) so that
> 
> cd /home/virtual; find [a-z]*/Maildir/.Trash/cur -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

The earlier example had /home/[a-z]*/ ... so you could/should have used
/home/virtual/[a-z]*/Maildir/.Trash/cur

> is the final solution
> 
> Thanks for all your help!!!  I really have to buy a regex book i suppose, and
> I hear O'Reilly has a good one

By the way, this is shell "globbing" not "regex".

Maybe your system has glob(7) and/or glob(3) manual pages.

Have fun!