Question

I want to excluse a specific filename (say, fubar.log) from a shell (bash) globbing string, *.log. Nothing of what I tried seems to work, because globbing doesn’t use the standard RE set.

Test case : the directory contains

fubar.log
fubaz.log
barbaz.log
text.txt

and only fubaz.log barbaz.log must be expanded by the glob.

Answer 1

if you are using bash

#!/bin/bash
shopt -s extglob
ls !(fubar).log

or without extglob

shopt -u extglob
for file in !(fubar).log
do
  echo "$file"
done

or

for file in *log
do
   case "$file" in
     fubar* ) continue;;
     * ) echo "do your stuff with $file";;
   esac 
done