In Bash you can do it by enabling the extglob option, like this (replace ls with cp and add the target directory, of course) ~/foobar> shopt extglob extglob off ~/foobar> ls abar afoo bbar bfoo ~/foobar> ls !(b*) -bash: !: event not found ~/foobar> shopt -s extglob # Enables extglob ~/foobar> ls !(b*) abar afoo … Read more
import glob jpgFilenamesList = glob.glob(‘145592*.jpg’) See glob in python documenttion
A couple of notes first: when you use Data/data1.txt as an argument, should it really be /Data/data1.txt (with a leading slash)? Also, should the outer loop scan only for .txt files, or all files in /Data? Here’s an answer, assuming /Data/data1.txt and .txt files only: #!/bin/bash for filename in /Data/*.txt; do for ((i=0; i<=3; i++)); … Read more
pathlib.Path.rglob Use pathlib.Path.rglob from the the pathlib module, which was introduced in Python 3.5. from pathlib import Path for path in Path(‘src’).rglob(‘*.c’): print(path.name) If you don’t want to use pathlib, use can use glob.glob(‘**/*.c’), but don’t forget to pass in the recursive keyword parameter and it will use inordinate amount of time on large directories. … Read more