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

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, 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 " " "|"))
>
> I tried the above in a dir that has 2 files w/the pattern, and
> 532 w/o, and it worked, but how much of that was 'luck'?
>
> Is there a better bash-pattern that doesn't use tr and such?

ls !(*-IGN-*)

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