Grep for beginning and end of line?

Question

I have a file where I want to grep for lines that start with either -rwx or drwx AND end in any number.

I\'ve got this, but it isnt quite right. Any ideas?

Answer 1

are you parsing output of ls -l?

If you are, and you just want to get the file name

find . -iname "*[0-9]" 

If you have no choice because usrLog.txt is created by something/someone else and you absolutely must use this file, other options include

awk '/^[-d].*[0-9]$/' file

Ruby(1.9+)

ruby -ne 'print if /^[-d].*[0-9]$/' file

Bash

while read -r line ; do  case $line in [-d]*[0-9] ) echo $line;  esac; done < file