dbt in syntax

oh

sorry i didn't check the command with all possible filenames.
christopher is rite it ll display all the filenames starting with list1 or list2.

try wild carts!

like

Code:

$cat list?

or

Code:

$cat list??

i could get the combined output of list 1 2 3 with list 11 12 13 only by using

Code:

cat list? list??

or by using

Code:

cat list*

but dis command will also display content of files list4,list5,list14,list56 etc..

ganesh that output is somewhat similar to what urvershi said.... more generalised than hers

got the answer finally

ls |grep ^list[1-2]*$|xargs cat

found by INDHU...

hey the contents of the file named "list" is also displayed!!!!
and it works even without ^

@akalya

ya ok.... thats because * denotes 0 or more occurences...
is there a way to specify 1 or more occurence!!!

@akalya

actually ^ specifies it should start with "list"
incase if you have "alist" or "blist" etc.. ^ will be useful

found by INDHU again

ls | grep ^list[1-2][1-2]*$ | xargs cat
this wud work i guess...

oh k...thanks indhu...it works!!!!!