Re: shouldn't /+(??) capture 2 letter files only?

[Rene Herman]

On 12/14/2012 11:29 PM, gregrwm wrote:

> well what i actually wanted was to conjure an expression that selected
> a small few files, and then invert the expression, in particular i
> wanted to isolate all 2 letter names plus a few other names, and then
> invert, so that the aforementioned were not in the selection.  perhaps
> that's just a tad beyond what a bash expression can do (without
> writing a loop)?

(shopt -s extglob)

echo !(??|foo|bar)

or if you want to loop over those files, "for FILE in !(??|foo|bar); do 
echo "$FILE"; done" and so on.

Rene.