Re: How to create bash-pattern to exclude a matching param in param expansion&matching?

[Peggy Russell]

> > You missed one set of quotes:
> >
> >   for f in "${1:-.}"/*; do
> 
> That still won't handle whitespace in file names.  Probably better to
> use find instead.
> 
> Andreas.

find is cool. 
ls has an -I, --ignore=PATTERN

ls -l -I"*-IGN-*"

Greg added the quotes. Thanks.  
I tested with:
  mkdir "dir with spaces"
  touch "dir with spaces"/simple-{a..c} "dir with spaces"/test-abc-IGN-def "dir 
with spaces/spa ces"
  ./scriptname "dir with spaces"
Worked as expected.     

Peggy Russell