On Thursday, Aug 30th 2007 at 11:13 -0400, quoth Mark Haney:
=>I've got a script that's not behaving itself. I know it's something
=>silly, but I can't figure it out. The script is just a for loop that
=>runs through a text file list of files (/directory/filename format) and
=>does an 'ls' on each one. The problem is, I /want/ the script to NOT
=>find those files, i.e., those files shouldn't be there. That part
=>works, but I can't dump the output of that into a text file.
=>
=>Basically ls dumps all the 'file or directory not found' straight to the
=>console and not to the text file when I redirect output to it:
=>
=>./missingfiles.sh > testfile.txt
=>
=>I get this output:
=>
=>ls: cannot access /home2/test/20070829/KVNX20070829_225943_744_3.bz2: No
=>such file or directory
=>
=>to the console and not the text file. How do I fix that?
shopt extglob
for ii in !(z*|y*|foobar*)
do
ls -l ii
done
or even easier
echo !(z*|y*|foobar*) | xargs ls -l
Use the force Luke.
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