Bash globbing files only?
Daniel Qarras
dqarras at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 29 18:18:27 UTC 2007
> > with Bash one can list directories (excluding dot dirs) like this:
> >
> > ls [^.]*/
> >
> > How can I list files instead of directories with Bash? I thought
> this
> > would be trivial but I can't find a solution anywhere.
>
> I don't think that it can be done with bash, but if you don't mind
> switching to zsh -- another extended version of the Bourne shell --
> it does become trivial:
>
> ~% ls *(.) # list only plain files
> ~% ls *(/) # list only directories
> ~% ls *(*) # list only executable files
Yes, I am painfully aware of the power of zsh :) But in this case I
need to do my script with bash and it seems that although globbing for
directories is trivial ( */ ) there is no similar pattern to match
files. Oh, well, I guess I'll need to waste some CPU cycles and launch
find everytime I need to know file names in the current directory.
Thanks.
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