for loop over specific files in a directory using Bash

Question

In a directory you have some various files - .txt, .sh and then plan files without a .foo modifier.

If you ls the directory:

blah.txt blah.sh blah blahs 

How do I tell a for-loop to only use files without a .foo modify? So "do stuff" on files blah and blahs in the above example.

The basic syntax is:

#!/bin/bash FILES=/home/shep/Desktop/test/*  for f in $FILES do     XYZ functions done 

As you can see this effectively loops over everything in the directory. How can I exclude the .sh, .txt or any other modifier?

I have been playing with some if statements but I am really curious if I can select for those non modified files.

Also could someone tell me the proper jargon for these plain text files without .txt?

Answer 1

#!/bin/bash FILES=/home/shep/Desktop/test/*  for f in $FILES do if [[ "$f" != *\.* ]] then   DO STUFF fi done 

Answer 2

If you want it a little bit more complex, you can use the find-command.

For the current directory:

for i in `find . -type f -regex \.\\/[A-Za-z0-9]*` do WHAT U WANT DONE done 

explanation:

find . -> starts find in the current dir -type f -> find only files -regex -> use a regular expression \.\\/[A-Za-z0-9]* -> thats the expression, this matches all files which starts with ./ (because we start in the current dir all files starts with this) and has only chars and numbers in the filename. 

http://infofreund.de/bash-loop-through-files/