Display files with inode number between 100 and 199 in specific directory

Question

I am trying to find all the files with inode number between 100 and 199. I tried it with wildcards like this:

ls -i -l 1* | wc -l

Answer 1

You can use grep to filter your results:

ls -i | grep "^1[0-9][0-9] "

With:

• ls -i: display inodes then files
• grep "^1[0-9][0-9] " (note the space): only take lines beginning with numbers from 100 to 199.