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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Global Pattern - exclude directories Post 302843232 by vino_hymi on Monday 12th of August 2013 11:51:59 AM
Old 08-12-2013
Global Pattern - exclude directories

All,

I am trying delete folder by adding pattern not to delete certain folders. But i struck with error.

When i use below command from command line, it works fine.

shopt -s extglob
rm -rf !(test1|test2|test3)


But when i use the same in shell script, i get the below error.

syntax error near unexpected token `('

Any help?
 

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Tcl_StringMatch(3)					      Tcl Library Procedures						Tcl_StringMatch(3)

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NAME
Tcl_StringMatch, Tcl_StringCaseMatch - test whether a string matches a pattern SYNOPSIS
#include <tcl.h> int Tcl_StringMatch(string, pattern) int Tcl_StringCaseMatch(string, pattern, nocase) ARGUMENTS
char *string (in) String to test. char *pattern (in) Pattern to match against string. May contain special characters from the set *?[]. int nocase (in) Specifies whether the match should be done case-sensitive (0) or case-insensitive (1). _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
This utility procedure determines whether a string matches a given pattern. If it does, then Tcl_StringMatch returns 1. Otherwise Tcl_StringMatch returns 0. The algorithm used for matching is the same algorithm used in the ``string match'' Tcl command and is similar to the algorithm used by the C-shell for file name matching; see the Tcl manual entry for details. | In Tcl_StringCaseMatch, the algorithm is the same, but you have the option to make the matching case-insensitive. If you choose this (by | passing nocase as 1), then the string and pattern are essentially matched in the lower case. KEYWORDS
match, pattern, string Tcl 8.1 Tcl_StringMatch(3)
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