bash query

[dave selby]

On 11/06/07, User Iam <vramnum10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 6/11/07, dave selby <dave6502 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a bash script that scans a dir with ...
> >
> > for sourcedir in KDE/*
> >
> > this cycles through everything in KDE/ - however i need to skip
> > certain file names. Anybody know how to implement this ? - my bash is
> > somewhat rusty :)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > dave
>
>
> Is this kinda what you want
>
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> #! /bin/bash
>
> for i in $( ls /etc   | grep ^z -v );   # everything but  stuff with z
>  do
>                  echo file: $i
> done
>

Thats exactly what I need - many thanks

Dave :)








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> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
>
> I used grep as a fitler to rid everything I didn't want...
> <in this case z>
> HTH
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