Tag: glob

linux ls command to list file with certain characters in filename

I have files with name in this (_abcd_) remains constant rest of the numbers in beginning and timestamp at the end changes every day. i want to list all such files in a txt file I am doing the following this will list all files and folder in mypath where I want only file with (abcd) in file name please

Exclude directory when grepping with zsh globbing

glob linux oh-my-zsh zsh

I have some file structure which contains projects with build folders at various depths. I’m trying to use zsh (extended) globbing to exclude files in build folders. I tried using the following command and many other variants: grep “string” (^build/)# I’m reading this as “Any folder that doesn’t match build 0 or more times.” However I’m still getting results from

Glob that doesn’t match anything expands to itself, rather than to nothing

bash glob linux

I want to iterate over the files in a folder of a special type (like .test): So I wrote a little script names for_loop: After (chmod +x for_loop) I can start it with ./for_loop. If there are .test-files, everthing is fine, BUT if there is no file in the folder that matches *.test, the for-loop is still executed once. In

Expanding asterisk in glob

glob linux python

I want to be able to print a list of all file in a directory in linux but my code only print out the first item in the directory inside home directory is text1.txt, text2.txt, text3.txt sys.argv[1] should be /home/* when I run it on command line: Script: the output is only the first file in the directory any idea?