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A find invocation like this should do the trick for you:
Code:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d
(Note that .hidden directories will be matched by that.)
You can incorporate that (or some version of it) into what you have so far. What you've posted does not need to be in a script. You can run it from one, or you can run it directly on the command line.
As always, test this first in a safe area before you try to run it on important directories.
I'm afraid I'm a bit of a newbie though... How would I incorporate the find bit into the previous commands?
Also, I'm afraid I haven't seen many command line arguments with $ and ;... Are these scripts on the command line? Is there anywhere that would be good to read up on this?
Anyway, the strange characters you question are all specific in this instance to the find command, so see "man find". In short, {} is replaced by the filenames found when used in an -exec option, and \; terminates the -exec.
If you have gaps in a sequence, you can separate each number with commas. If you have a complete sequence of numbers, or letters, you can use the double dot from.
You can't mix them however:
Dir{1,3,5..8} won't work.
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