Re: [PATCH] Ignore file filter

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 14, 2005, 09:01 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy8ai2nb6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <4285B6A8.4080309@dgreaves.com>

>>>>> "DG" == David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> writes:

>>> if [[ $file =~ $patt ]]; then
>> 
>> I'm sorry but this is really nothing my bash-2.05.0(1)-release supports.

DG> OK DG> I don't know how to do that.

Is that regexp or shell glob? If regexp, expr is your friend, like this:

    if expr "$file" : "$patt" >/dev/null; then

For a glob:

    patt='?.sh'
    file=1.sh

    case "$file" in
    $patt)
            echo Yeah ;;
    *)
            echo No ;;
    esac

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