> 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 * Bigby James <bigby.james@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2014-05-30 12:21] : > 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 Hi, I found the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide extremely valuable. http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ You might be interested in these particular parts : http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/pathmanagement.html http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/globbingref.html Regards, -- Alexandre de Verteuil <claudelepoisson@xxxxxxxxx> public key ID : 0xDD237C00 http://alexandre.deverteuil.net/