Re: [arch-general] Recommended reading for Shell expansion mechanism

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