How to un-select files in shell wildcard patterns

[Matthew Seaman]

On 22/06/2019 00:40, Polytropon wrote:
> So, is it correct that there is no shell builtin mechanism for
> this kind of "negative selection"?

You can use a case statement like so:

for f in $filelist ; do
    case f in
       "*a*")   # Ignore files with 'a' in the name
           ;;
       "*")
           do something
           ;;
    esac
done

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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