Unix command to list all the files and directories in the current directory whose second character is a digit

Question

My code for this is ls | grep .[0-9]*

And the output is showing as

d2
d4
di3
dir1
f1
f2
fil4
file3
g2t
g3t

The expected output is

d2
d4
f1
f2
g2t
g3t

I know i can directly use ls ?[0-9] but then my output order is different

f1  f2  g2t  g3t

d2:

d4:

If you're going to pipe `ls` to `grep` (which you shouldn't do), you need to anchor the pattern. eg `grep '^.[0-9]'` But there are many issues with this. Use `find` — William Pursell, Mar 19 '20 at 21:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '20 at 21:13

1

Okay this worked ls -d ?[0-9]*

answered Mar 19 '20 at 21:13

Samhita Argula

Gabriel Laden · Answer 2 · 2020-03-23T08:07:17.030

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This find command lists the files and directories in the current directory whose names have a second character that is a digit

find . -maxdepth 1 -name '?[0-9]*'

edited Mar 23 '20 at 08:07

answered Mar 23 '20 at 06:54

Gabriel Laden

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 17 '21 at 06:14

0

Try this , It will work

ls -1 | grep '^.[0-9][.]*'

answered Jun 17 '21 at 06:14

yuva kiran

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