for-loop for every folder in a directory, excluding some of them

Question

Thank you very much in advance for helping!

I have this code in bash:

for d in this_folder/*    
    do    
        plugin=$(basename $d)
        ech         


        

Answer 1

While How to exclude some files from the loop in shell script was marked as a dupe of this Q/A and closed, that Q specifically asked about excluding files in a BASH script, which is exactly what I needed (in a script to check the validity of link fragments (the part after #) in local URLs. Here is my solution.

    for FILE in *
    do
        ## https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-check-if-string-contains-substring-in-bash/
        if [[ "$FILE" == *"cnp_"* ]]
        then
            echo 'cnp_* file found; skipping'
            continue
        fi
        ## rest of script
    done

Output:

    cnp_* file found; skipping

    ----------------------------------------
    FILE: 1 | NAME: linkchecker-test_file1.html
    PATH: /mnt/Vancouver/domains/buriedtruth.com/linkchecker-tests/linkchecker-test_file1.html

     RAW LINE: #bookmark1
    FULL PATH: /mnt/Vancouver/domains/buriedtruth.com/linkchecker-tests/linkchecker-test_file1.html#bookmark1
         LINK: /mnt/Vancouver/domains/buriedtruth.com/linkchecker-tests/linkchecker-test_file1.html
     FRAGMENT: bookmark1
       STATUS: OK
    ...

My test directory contained 3 files, with one that I wanted to exclude (web scrape of an old website: an index with with tons of deprecated link fragments).

[victoria@victoria link_fragment_tester]$ tree
.
├── cnp_members-index.html
├── linkchecker-test_file1.html -> /mnt/Vancouver/domains/buriedtruth.com/linkchecker-tests/linkchecker-test_file1.html
└── linkchecker-test_file2.html -> /mnt/Vancouver/domains/buriedtruth.com/linkchecker-tests/linkchecker-test_file2.html

0 directories, 3 files
[victoria@victoria link_fragment_tester]$