Bash globbing: how to express “something-*.txt except *-foobar.txt” as glob?

Question

On the command line, can I express easily in terms of shell globs that I would like to catch all files something-*.txt, except for something-*-foobar.txt? If I can, how?

NB: I know how to achieve the same with grep -v or other combinations of multiple commands. The question is solely about whether (and if so how) to achieve this with shell globs.

Answer 1

You can enable ksh-style extended globbing with:

shopt -s extglob

And then write something-!(*-foobar).txt