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Filter / select folders using wildcards

For my mecurial ignore file I want to select all the folders that start with dataset in my project folder with with one 'glob statement'. Example project folder: my_project_folder/ dataset1/ ...
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“or” in shell glob

I want to ls the files containing the substring "s1r", "s2r", "s3r" or "s19r" in their filenames. I'm almost there! Botched attempts: ls *s[123][9?]r* The above gives me only files including the ...
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Modifying zsh globbing patterns to use with cp

I'm trying to write a script to copy files recursively from a particular folder except files A.extn, B/*.extn and C/* where B and C are directories and extn is just some generic extension. This is ...
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Can I select only one result from a bash glob?

I'm trying to write a script for work to automate some reporting on an output. The Log files are (currently, it's being 'standardise' in the future) stored in this sort of path structure: ...
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How does logrotate treat globbing?

If I have a logrotate config file like this, # matches multiple ones /var/log/project/*.log { ... prerotate ... endscript ... } So how does the glob work here? If I have 3 log ...
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What is an equivalent of rm `find lib/ -name *.swp` without find?

As in the title, I would like to remove all files in the lib directory with .swp in the end. How can I do this without find in: rm `find lib/ -name *.swp`
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How to match case insensitive patterns with ls?

I would like to list all files matching a certain pattern while ignoring the case. For example, I run the following commands: ls *abc* I need to see all the file that have "abc" as a part of the ...
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Recursive glob?

I'd like to write something like this: $ ls **.py in order to get all .py filenames, recursively walking a directory hierarchy. Even if there are .py files to find, the shell (bash) gives this ...
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Asking ls to only list files in a path that match a specific glob/regex

In Zsh: Is there a way to use ls to only list files and folders in the current directory that match a specific globbing or regex pattern? For example, say I have multiple files that start with the ...