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Like <TAB> expands a filename given a prefix you can also expand a file name given the middle part of a file name using escape and then 'g'.
Which will expand to:
$ ls abc1def abc2def abc3def abc4def abc5def $ ls *2*<ESC>g
Which will expand to:
$ ls abc2def
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Mitzekotze#1
Hey thanks for sharing this hint.
Posted 2009-01-13 16:53:24
But it only expand if there is one file in the regex, for example:
$ touch test1.txt test2.txt test3.txt
$ ls test*txt<ESC>g
It doesn't expand nothing :-/
$ ls test1*txt
This example works.. Tested on BASH 2 and 3.. --Santi
$ touch test1.txt test2.txt test3.txt
$ ls test*txt<ESC>g
It doesn't expand nothing :-/
$ ls test1*txt
This example works.. Tested on BASH 2 and 3.. --Santi
Posted 2009-01-15 09:38:04