Re: wildcard expansion

On 2013-09-17 20:06, Russell Coker wrote:

ls -l *.mkv *.avi *.mp4

The above command will give me errors if I happen to have no .avi files or no .mkv files.

How can I write a command to give a list of all video files and not give an error if some don't exist? Preferably in bash, but I'm willing to try another shell if necessary.

As an aside I'm not actually after running ls, the below is what I'm really trying to do:

for n in *.mkv *.avi *.mp4 ; do

You want nullglob: mattcen@isis:tmp$ touch a.mkv b.mp4 mattcen@isis:tmp$ ls *.mkv *.mp4 *.avi ls: cannot access *.avi: No such file or directory a.mkv b.mp4 mattcen@isis:tmp$ shopt -s nullglob mattcen@isis:tmp$ ls *.mkv *.mp4 *.avi a.mkv b.mp4 -- Regards, Matthew Cengia