Re: [Help-bash] Matching file pattern excluding some exceptions

[DJ Mills]

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Clark WANG <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Suppose that I want match all *.cpp except main*.cpp files. Instead of
>> using other utilities like find or grep, is there a way to use native
>> bash features by extend the following code to do so?
>
>
> shopt -s extglob
> echo !(main*).cpp
>>
>>
>> shopt -s nullglob
>> set -- *.cpp
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Peng
>>
>

See http://mywiki.wooledge.org/glob

Make sure that extglob is set _before_ the line that needs it is
parsed. It alters the
way bash parses, and therefore cannot be set on the same line, or in the same
compound command. The best practice is to set it right under the shebang.