Scripting question how to filter list of files based on globs

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Tue Apr 9 14:30:34 PDT 2024


Hi,

I'm trying to modify a script generates a list of filenames one per line, but should be filtered against a blacklist of file globs.

Something like:

% find dir <args> -print | grep -v -f blacklist

if this were a version of grep that understood shell-style globs instead of basic regular expressions.

Worst case I could try to mangle the globs patterns into regular-expressions, but I was hoping for something simpler.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-Philip




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