Script to list Sequential files

UNIX for Beginners Q & A
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I have sequential files like this. I'm trying to write a bash shell script to list all of them. These files are part of mysql to do database point in time recovery

bin.000001
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.
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bin.000999

I have something like this but it won't display bin.000010 and up. If anyone has a solution pls do let me know.

# find ~/ -name 'bin.00000[0-99]
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Each character set [ ] matches one character

find ~/ -name 'bin.000[0-9][0-9][0-9]'
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Thanks madelngermany,

I used find ~/ -name 'bin.0000[01-9][10-999]' and it worked.

Can you explain what is [01-9][10-999]?

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A bit difficult to believe your pattern matched bin.000999 as it is for the last two digits only, one per square bracket pattern. First pattern will match 0 and 1-9, second 1, 0-9, 9, and 9 (some redundancy, i'd say).

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Sorry, I made a mistake, my code did not work and i used your code it's working.
Can you explain what is [0-9][0-9][0-9]

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man bash :

So one [0-9] means one character from (the range) 0 through 9.

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