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Force Bash 4 'globstar' option to ignore symlinks
Bash 4 has a fantastic option called 'globstar' that emulates (i.e. was stolen from) zsh's ** syntax for globbing across multiple directories. … If not, is there any plan to add this feature to Bash in a future release? Until then (or if there is no such plan), can anyone suggest a decent (and convenient) workaround? …
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When does globstar descend into symlinked directories?
In this Ask Ubuntu post, I used globstar to locate a file when PATH is unset:
$ shopt -s globstar; for v in /**/vim; do [[ -x $v && -f $v ]] && echo "$v"; done
/etc/alternatives/vim
/usr/bin/vim
/usr/ … From comments:
I'm using Bash version 4.4.18(1) on Ubuntu 16.04. …
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Fix File Path Casing
In bash:
shopt -s nocasematch globstar
for f in **; do for search in "${files[*]}"; do [[ $f == $search ]] && echo Found "$search" at: "$f"; done; done
The nocasematch shell option tells the [[ ... … The globstar shell enables the ** brute-force bash emulation of find; it differs from find in that it will skip dot-files (unless shopt -s dotglob is set) and follows symlinks. …
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Get list of all files by mask in terminal
In bash, turn on the globstar option so that ** matches any level of subdirectories. You can do this from your ~/.bashrc. Also turn on the extglob options to activate ksh extended patterns. … shopt -s globstar extglob
Then:
grep PATTERN **/trunk/src/**/*.@(h|cpp)
Beware that bash versions up to 4.2 follow symlinks to directories when you use **. …
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How to copy a file with unique name without navigating to directory?
With zsh or fish or ksh -o globstar or bash -O globstar (or after shopt -s globstar in bash) or tcsh after set globstar or yash -o extended-glob:
cp -- **/Screenshot20180509143*3.png /dev/media/SD256/ … Note that:
fish and versions of bash prior to 4.3 will following symlinks when recursing. With zsh, tcsh or yash, you can use *** instead of ** to get that behaviour. …
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When does globstar descend into symlinked directories?
tl;dr - Bash expansion is complicated to prevent infinite symlink loops (in bash >= 4.3), and you and I both misinterpreted what it was doing in the commands you posted
I assume you have bash >= 4.3 as … From the documentation for bash shopt:
globstar
If set, the pattern ‘**’ used in a filename expansion context will match all files and zero or more directories and subdirectories. …
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Bash script error with strings with paths that have spaces and wildcards
Use l instead of d to skip symlink-files.
• -maxdepth 1 : is configuring it to find files within current (aka: one) directory level only. … .
extglob : If set, the extended pattern matching features described above (see Pattern Matching) are enabled.
globstar : If set, the pattern ‘**’ used in a filename expansion context will match all files …
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