Fetch md5sum

I dealt with a lot of Windows malware sample for my PhD work, hence I need a simple way to copy these files. Here goes

for i in `ls|grep -e "^[0-9a-f]\{32\}"`; do cp $i ~/Desktop/testbed/ -vi;done

This will basically fetch all filenames which has 32 characters (md5sum, which consist numbers and small letters a through f)

Regular expression in bash "for" loop for file exclusion

najmi@aku-PC ~/cuba
$ touch ayam.txt ayam.csv ayam.egg

najmi@aku-PC ~/cuba
$  for i in a*[!.csv,.txt];do echo $i;done
ayam.egg

Here we use the popular ! mark to exclude the file extension within the brackets. Got the solution after few trials.

Using regexp in Linux commands

What if you have several files with same name but different extension and you want to choose only few files and leave the rests?

See the example here:

Create several files:
najmi@vostro:~/test$ touch aku.png aku.jpg aku.txt

Check:
najmi@vostro:~/test$ ls
aku.jpg  aku.png  aku.txt

New directory to separate the files

najmi@vostro:~/test$ mkdir newdir

Use {} braces to include only the specific extensions that you want to handle:

najmi@vostro:~/test$ mv aku.{jpg,txt} newdir/ -v

`aku.jpg' -> `newdir/aku.jpg'
`aku.txt' -> `newdir/aku.txt'


Check current directory
najmi@vostro:~/test$ ls
aku.png  newdir

Selected files already affected(moved)
najmi@vostro:~/test$ ls newdir/
aku.jpg  aku.txt