I stopped a process to troubleshoot something. Now, I would like to start the process where it left off in CentOS 6.4.
This script I stopped runs a perl script in a loop to process all of the files in /dev/shm/split/. These files were split into many parts from a larger file. An example of how they are named are as follows:
file.txt.aa
file.txt.ab
file.txt.ac
...and so on.
I have identified that the script left off at file.txt.fy. So, I would like to remove all of the files in /dev/shm/split/ that are from file.txt.aa through file.txt.fy.
I tried to create a whitelist for the rm command by doing:
ls /dev/shm/split/ > whitelist
cat whitelist | egrep -v 'file.txt.[aa-fz]' | tee whitelist.tmp
This did not do what I had intended.
Please help me! Thank you!
The problem with your command is that you cannot match two characters with the square bracket pattern in bash. You should use something like that instead:
ls file.txt.[a-e]? file.txt.f[a-y]
Basically decompose your range into two ranges, the first will match .aa to .ez, and the second .fa to .fy (included).
Note that I have used the ls command here. I always find it a good idea to first echo or ls the commands/files you're going to run when the operations you do are potentially destructive. When you're sure it produces the right output, go on and use rm instead of ls.