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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: Globbing in csh
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Date: 14 Feb 91 06:37:13 GMT
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In-Reply-To: armstron@cs.arizona.edu (Jim Armstrong)

In article <857@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, armstron@cs (Jim Armstrong) writes:
| Is is possible to match a group of files in alphabetic order using
| globbing in csh?  For example my dir looks like this:
| 	able	david	greedy	jolly  .....
| 	baker   emery   handy	kape   .....
| 	cain	frank	intro	lemma  .....
| 
| I want to cat all files > george (lexicographically).
| 
| Maybe something like [g-z]* but that only looks at the first
| letter and allows something like gary.
| 
| Can anyone help me please?

Hmm.  Not in csh.  But with a little assist from Perl:

cat `ls | perl -ne 'print if $_ gt "george"'`

Or, doing it all in Perl (catting and everything):

perl -e '@ARGV = grep($_ gt "george",<*>); while (<>) {	print; }'

Just another Perl hacker,
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