Re: [Help-bash] Help With School Assignment, Learning Bash Scripts

[nick]

I agree with you guys about this don't worry. I do kernel and embedded 
programming so the ways he
teaches us our terrible, I am actually teaching most of my fellow students more 
then he does.
Cheers and Thanks,
Nick 

On 14-11-07 08:46 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 02:39:23PM +0100, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 11/07/2014 02:05 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 05:18:00PM -0500, nick wrote:
>>>> Here is my code so far:
>>>> !/bin/bash 
>>>> shopt -s extglob nullglob
>>>> dir=$1
>>>> for file in "$dir"/!*(.old)
>>>> do
>>>>     [[ $file == *.old ]] || mv -- "$file" "$file.old"
>>>> done    
>>>
>>> The extended glob is not quite right.  If you want to match "all files
>>> except those that end with .old" it should be "$dir"/!(*.old) instead.
>>
>> But what about dot files?
> 
> Add dotglob to the shopt line.
>