Trying to find any files of certain pattern in a directory and its subdirectories. I tried:
C:\test\workspace>dir *.*.r[0-9]* /s /b
File Not Found
in hopes to find files like
abc.txt.r12222
tjy.java.r9994
Where an number is appended after the letter r, done by SVN.
What am I doing wrong?
I just answered this on Stack Overflow a couple of days ago. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15648679/find-text-string-or-part-of-text-with-dot-in-grepwin/15648872#15648872
In your case, it would look like:
dir * /s/b | findstr \.r[0-9]*[0-9]$
Updates
Be careful, the * in one of the other examples ( ".r[0-9]*$") finds all or none of the number range [0-9], so it also finds records that end in 'r' only which is not expected.
My original answer used a RegEx + after the number, but as @ScottChu pointed out, that's not an option in findstr.
This answer was also updated with a variant of the comment by @ndreisg which also works, however, the $ is still needed at the end to ensure the match closes with the number and doesn't find it in the middle of the string.
WSL
Also, in addition to installing GNU grep, you can now install the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
My suggestion for you is to do that with grep - an utility for UNIX-like systems that has been ported to Windows and can match lines using regular expressions.
grep is included with MinGW's MSYS package, the installer can be found here. (install only MSYS)
Then you'll have to add MSYS tools to your PATH variable, dafeult directory for MSYS is C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin
Finally you can do your serach with this command:
ls -a | grep ^.+\..+\.r[0-9]+$
... which means: "get output from ls -a (file listing including hidden files) and pass it to grep, match lines that look like ..r[0-9]* (with at least one character symbolized by each asterisk)".
$ ls -R | grep -H ^.*[0-9]$ (standard input):res.jar.r469621 (standard input):res.jar.r464460 (standard input):test.jar.r46521 (standard input):test.jar.r46970
c:\pager\test.jar.r46521 as opposed to (standard input):test.jar.r46521
Please try by navigating to c:\windows\system32 where the findstr is located and then execute the suggested commands.
You can try this:
dir /a| findstr .r[0-9]*$
For help, type findstr /?.
C:\Temp>findstr /S /B [0-9] . C:\Temp>findstr /S /B r[0-9]$ . C:\Temp>findstr /S /B $.*r[0-9]$ C:\Temp>findstr /S /B $.*r*$ C:\Temp>findstr /S /B $.*r..*$ C:\Temp>findstr /S /B $.*r\..*$ C:\Temp>findstr /S /B /R $.*r\..*$ C:\Temp>findstr /S /B /R "$.*\..r[0-9]*$ C:\Temp>findstr /S /B /R "$.*\..r[0-9]*$" C:\Temp>findstr /S /B /R "$.*\..r[0-9]*$" . C:\Temp>findstr /S /B /R "$.*\..r[0-9]$" . C:\Temp>findstr /S /B /R "$.*[0-9]*" . C:\Temp>findstr /S /B /R "$*[0-9]*" .
C:\Temp>dir /aa | findstr .r[0-9]*$ File Not Found