Exclude a string from wildcard search in a shell

Question

I am trying to exclude a certain string from a file search.

Suppose I have a list of files: file_Michael.txt, file_Thomas.txt, file_Anne.txt.

I want to be ab

Answer 1

If you are looping a wildcard, just skip the rest of the iteration if there is something you want to exclude.

for file in *.txt; do
    case $file in *Thomas*) continue;; esac
    : ... do stuff with "$file"
done