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# 1  
Old 10-15-2013
Trying to run a basic for loop
OS : RHEL 6.1
Shell : Bash

I had a similair post on this a few weeks back. But I didn't explain my requirements clearly then. Hence starting a new thread now.

I have lots of files in /tmp/stage directory as show below.

I want to loop through each files to run a command on each file.
I want to skip those files whose names end with a number. How can I do this ? My following attempts in writing the for loop has failed.


Code:
# touch sharp
# touch sharper
# touch sharpest
# touch sharpener
# touch sharpy
# touch sharper2
# touch sharpest4

# pwd
/tmp/stage
# ls -ld *
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Oct  8 03:12 sharp
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Oct  8 03:12 sharpener
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Oct  8 03:12 sharper
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Oct  8 03:14 sharper2
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Oct  8 03:12 sharpest
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Oct  8 03:14 sharpest4
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Oct  8 03:12 sharpy
#

# for i in /tmp/stage/sharp[a-b]* ; do echo $i ; done
/tmp/stage/sharp[a-b]*
#
#
#
# for i in /tmp/stage/sharp[a-b] ; do echo $i ; done
/tmp/stage/sharp[a-b]
#
#
# for i in /tmp/stage/sharp*[a-b] ; do echo $i ; done
/tmp/stage/sharp*[a-b]
#

I want this for loop to run a command on each file like

Code:
for f in /tmp/stage/sharp[a-z]
do
 echo "Processing $f"
 # do something on $f
done

# 2  
Old 10-15-2013
What gives the following command?
Code:
for i in sharp!(*[0-9])
do echo $i
done

Note that this is Shell expression, not REGEX ! ...
Last edited by ctsgnb; 10-15-2013 at 04:50 PM.. Reason: removing the second wildcard since only files ending with numbers should be filtered out
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kraljic
# 3  
Old 10-15-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by kraljic
I want to skip those files whose names end with a number. How can I do this ?
Code:
$ ls
f1  f2  f3  fa  fb  fc

$ for f in *[!0-9]; do echo $f; done
fa
fb
fc

Regards,
Alister
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kraljic
# 4  
Old 10-15-2013
You were quite close (but allowing only a and b chars, not the entire alphabet):
Code:
for f in /tmp/stage/sharp*[a-z]
 do  echo "Processing $f"
# do something on $f
 done

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kraljic
# 5  
Old 10-15-2013
At the risk of being pedantic, I will point out that the set of files not ending in a digit and the set of files ending with a letter may not be identical. Which is the correct set is left for the OP to decide.

Regards,
Alister
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# 6  
Old 10-15-2013
Absolutely right. I just wanted to point out that he/she stopped his/her experiments close to (somewhat discussible, yes) success.
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kraljic
# 7  
Old 10-16-2013
Thank you very much Rudic, Alister. Yes. I mistakenly entered a-b instead a-z. It has been a long day Smilie

Thank you ctsgnb . I encountered the following error for the solution you've provided.

Code:
$ for i in /tmp/stage/sharp!(*[0-9]); do echo $i ; done
-bash: !: event not found
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