Multiple patterns with glob

[fabien]

Hi!

I know I can use glob to get a list of filenames like
[glob -nocomplain "$currentdir/*.log"]

How can I get a list with multiples patterns like *.log *.dat etc?

How can I get a list of files that are not in the patterns i.e not *.log*.exe?

Many thanks!

 

[Bong]

I don't think you can do the "not" match. According to the help file:

The pattern arguments may contain any of the following special characters:

? Matches any single character.

* Matches any sequence of zero or more characters.

[chars] Matches any single character in chars. If chars contains a sequence of the form a-b then any character between a and b (inclusive) will match.

\x Matches the character x.

{a,b,...} Matches any of the strings a, b, etc.

As for the multiple patterns, just put them in the statement, separated by commas:
glob -nocomplain "$currentdir/*.log .dat ...

Bob Rashkin
rrashkin@csc.com

 

[marsd]

The results of glob are saved in a list so you can just
pass the urls to glob and save the results in named lists.

set loglist [glob $logdir/*.log]
set dblist [glob $dbdata/*.db]

HTH