There is something I am not really getting:
touch a b c ; mkdir -p git ; mkdir -p iii/ooo/ppp ; touch git/rtdsfgsdg ; touch .sdfsadf
So, did that produce what I wanted?
» tree -a
.
├── a
├── b
├── c
├── git
│ └── rtdsfgsdg
├── iii
│ └── ooo
│ └── ppp
└── .sdfsadf
4 directories, 5 files
Yepp. Some files, one dir, one hidden file. All good.
Now I want to delete everything, but I want to keep the hidden file and the git directory. GLOBIGNORE to the rescue!
GLOBIGNORE=git rm -rf *
How did it went?
» tree -a
.
└── .sdfsadf
0 directories, 1 file
Simply awful. Where is my git folder? Why is GLOBIGNORE not working as advertised?
GLOBIGNORE
A colon-separated list of patterns defining the set of file
names to be ignored by pathname expansion. If a file name
matched by a pathname expansion pattern also matches one of the
patterns in GLOBIGNORE, it is removed from the list of matches.
I am on:
» bash --version
GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>Solution :
The syntax you’re using to temporarily apply the variable only applies at execution time, not at parse time; consequently, it can’t change how the glob is expanded, because replacing the * with a list of files happens before rm is invoked.
To modify parse-time behavior, split into two separate commands:
GLOBIGNORE=git
rm -rf *
See this running successfully at https://replit.com/@CharlesDuffy2/LovablePoliticalPrograms