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Jacob Hempel
Jacob Hempel

Reputation: 37

Trying to iterate through all files in local directory without the "." and ".."

Trying to write a bash script to process a bunch of sub-directories in the directory that its run in. I need to cd into each directory, compile some code, and run the executable. The problem is that when I iterate through the files in my current directory it includes the "." and ".." and I don't want those to be iterated on. What's the easiest way around this?

Current code I'm working with:

for file in .* *
do 
echo "entering $file"
cd $file
done

Output looks like:

entering .
entering ..

By the time it looks for other files in my local directory its up too many directories to be useful. How do I remove . and .. from the list that I iterate through?

Apologies if this is a dumb question - very new to bash scripting.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 38

Answers (1)

Josh Lee
Josh Lee

Reputation: 177785

shopt -s dotglob will make * include dotfiles but not . and ...

3.5.8 Filename Expansion

Upvotes: 3

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