Question

Consider I have lots of shell scripts in a folder named test. I want to execute all the files in it except one particular file. what do I do? relocating the file or executing the file one after an other manually is not an option. Is there any way I could do this in single line. Or perhaps, adding something to sh path/to/test/*.sh, which executes all files?

Answer 1

for file in test/*; do
    [ "$file" != "test/do-not-run.sh" ] && sh "$file"
done

If you are using bash, you can use extended patterns to skip the undesired script:

shopt -s extglob
for file in test/!(do-not-run).sh; do
    sh "$file"
done