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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 10:13:24 -0500
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From: abbott on blue <jabbott@blue.pca.state.mn.us>
Subject: Unix question.  Regular expressions in commands?
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I guess this is kind of a newbie unix question.  I have just learned about
regular expressions within perl and so am trying to use them everyplace. :-)

>From a command line what I would like to do is....
# mv *.[dump asc dat txt clean] tablecreation

but this does not work.  I end up having to...
# mv *.dump tablecreation
# mv *.asc tablecreation
# mv *.dat tablecreation
# mv *.txt tablecreation
# mv *.clean tablecreation

Is there anyway to do regular expression matching within commands?  

Thanks.
--ja