Venkataraman Ramakrishnan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Hello everybody,
>
>I want to search list all the files of the format "XAAAAAnn" in a group
>where
>X=3DCharacter X,=20
>A=3DAny Character between [a-z] and
>N=3Dany number between 0-9
>
>So I used the following command
>LISTFILE X[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9]."GROUP-NAME"
>
>This gives the following error
>File name is more than eight characters long. (CIERR 532)
>
>Can anyone throw some light on this???
>
>Venkat

Variations of your command produced the same results. However, change
the format to HFS syntax and the command works:

LISTFILE /ACCT/GROUP/X[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9]

I suspect you've identified a bug in non-HFS parsing by the LISTFILE
command.

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