Bash and exclusions in a list
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title: 'Bash And Exclusions in a List'
date: '2014-02-05T08:22:44-06:00'
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title: 'Bash And Exclusions in a List'
date: '2014-02-05T08:22:44-06:00'
status: publish
permalink: /bash-and-exclusions-in-a-list
author: admin
excerpt: ''
type: post
id: 538
category:
- Bash
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Just a quick snippet on doing exclusions when you loop through a list.
DIRS=`ls -l --time-style="long-iso" $MYDIR | egrep '^d' | awk '{print $8}'`
EXCLUDELIST="mail Mail"
for EXCLUDE in $EXCLUDELIST
do
DIRS=`echo $DIRS | sed "s/\b$EXCLUDE\b//g"`
done
for DIR in $DIRS
do
echo ${DIR} :
done
For some reason on Solaris sed had an issue with "\b" so I adjusted to sed "s/$EXCLUDE//g". Shown as follow:
#Linux:
$ echo "d1 d2 d3" | sed "s/\bd2\b//g"
d1 d3
# Solaris Fails:
# echo "d1 d2 d3" | sed "s/\bd2\b//g"
d1 d2 d3
# Solaris Works
# echo "d1 d2 d3" | sed "s/d2//g"
d1 d3