On 05/30, Heiko Becker wrote: > Hi all, > > as I'm trying to give shell programming and things like that a start, I have > a short question related to the shell expansion: > > I heard that it is possible to exclude things after using a wildcard like > ./* for every file in the current directory. Am I right or did I > misunderstand something? Is there some place on the internet where I can > find things about expansions and such operations of the shell? > > Thanks in advance, > > Heiko If Bash is what you're trying to learn, I'd recommend following Greg's Wiki.[1] The section on patterns and globbing has what you're looking for.[2] [1]: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide [2]: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide/Patterns