Just little elaboration of regex for search a directory and file
Find a directroy with name like book
find . -name "*book*" -type d
Find a file with name like book word
find . -name "*book*" -type f
Start with:
find . -name '*.log.*.zip' -a -mtime +1
You may not need a regex, try:
find . -name '*.log.*-*-*.zip' -a -mtime +1
You will want the +1 in order to match 1, 2, 3 ...
Use -regex not -name, and be aware that the regex matches against what find would print, e.g. "/home/test/test.log" not "test.log"
Use -regex
:
From the man page:
-regex pattern
File name matches regular expression pattern. This is a match on the whole path, not a search. For example, to match a file named './fubar3', you can use the
regular expression '.*bar.' or '.*b.*3', but not 'b.*r3'.
Also, I don't believe find
supports regex extensions such as \d
. You need to use [0-9]
.
find . -regex '.*test\.log\.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]\.zip'
Source: Stackoverflow.com