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I'm having a bit of trouble with globs in Bash. For example:
echo *
This prints out all of the files and folders in the current directory. e.g. (file1 file2 folder1 folder2)
echo */
This prints out all of the folders with a / after the name. e.g. (folder1/ folder2/)
How can I glob for just the files? e.g. (file1 file2)
I know it could be done by parsing ls but also know that it is a bad idea. I tried using extended blobbing but couldn't get that to work either.
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You can use different types of globbing patterns for searching particular content from a file. 'grep' command is used for content searching in bash.
The syntax to loop through each file individually in a loop is: create a variable (f for file, for example). Then define the data set you want the variable to cycle through. In this case, cycle through all files in the current directory using the * wildcard character (the * wildcard matches everything).
To see a list of all subdirectories and files within your current working directory, use the command ls .
To loop through a directory, and then print the name of the file, execute the following command: for FILE in *; do echo $FILE; done.
WIthout using any external utility you can try for loop with glob support:
for i in *; do [ -f "$i" ] && echo "$i"; done
I don't know if you can solve this with globbing, but you can certainly solve it with find:
find . -type f -maxdepth 1
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