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I want to excluse a specific filename (say, fubar.log) from a shell (bash) globbing string, *.log. Nothing of what I tried seems to work, because globbing doesn't use the standard RE set.
Test case : the directory contains
fubar.log
fubaz.log
barbaz.log
text.txt
and only fubaz.log barbaz.log must be expanded by the glob.
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Exclude Files and Directories from a List. When you need to exclude a large number of different files and directories, you can use the rsync --exclude-from flag. To do so, create a text file with the name of the files and directories you want to exclude. Then, pass the name of the file to the --exlude-from option.
Exclude Directories and Files To exclude a directory from the search, use the --exclude-dir option. The path to the excluded directory is relative to the search directory.
In filename globbing, just as in MS-DOS wildcarding, the shell attempts to replace metacharacters appearing in arguments in such a way that arguments specify filenames. Filename globbing makes it easier to specify names of files and sets of files.
The Bash shell feature that is used for matching or expanding specific types of patterns is called globbing. Globbing is mainly used to match filenames or searching for content in a file. Globbing uses wildcard characters to create the pattern.
if you are using bash
#!/bin/bash
shopt -s extglob
ls !(fubar).log
or without extglob
shopt -u extglob
for file in !(fubar).log
do
echo "$file"
done
or
for file in *log
do
case "$file" in
fubar* ) continue;;
* ) echo "do your stuff with $file";;
esac
done
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