Bash globbing files only?

David G. Miller dave at davenjudy.org
Mon Jan 29 22:06:04 UTC 2007


"David G. Miller" <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote:

> 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.
>   
> How about:
>
> ls -dF ./.[^.]*/ ./*/
> ./.gconf//   ./.gnome2//          ./.kde//  ./.vnc//
> ./.gconfd//  ./.gnome2_private//  ./mail//
> ...
>   
Nothing like getting the question backwards.  Doh!  Still seems like it 
should be doable.

Cheers,
Dave

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