Bash "for file in" exception

Question

I got this

for file in *; do
    any command
done

What I want to do is add an exception to the "for file in *; do".

Any ideas?

Answer 1

If you wanted to skip files with a particular extension, for example, ".pl", you could do:

for file in *
do
    [ "${file##*.}" != "pl" ] && echo $file
done

Answer 2

One way to do what I think you are asking is to loop through and check a file name with a if statement (or just grep -v the ls cmd):

for file in `ls`; do
    if [ "$file" == "something" ]; then
        # do something
    else
        # something else
    fi
done