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Re: How to create bash-pattern to exclude a matching param in param expa


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: How to create bash-pattern to exclude a matching param in param expansion&matching?
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:41:11 -0600
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On 10/28/2013 04:35 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I am missing how to create a bash-pattern that excludes a specific pattern.
> 
> I.e. to ignore any file with '-IGN-' somewhere in the filename.
> 
> The best I've come up with so far has been to use shell to build
> a pattern, but I know it is limited in functionality.  I.e.:
> 
> ls !($(echo *+(-IGN-)*|tr " " "|"))

for $var in *; do
  case $var in
    *-IGN-*) ;;
    *) # whatever you wanted on the remaining files
      ;;
  esac
done

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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