This what my test code looks like

testdir="temp"
mkdir $testdir
GLOBIGNORE="*.jpg"
mv *.* $testdir


When I used mv * $testdir I got the move into a subdirectory of itself error message. I figure * is interepted as everything in the dir whereas *.* is interpreted as all files in the dir.

"Bug ? That's not a bug that's a feature !"

Not a bug, glob * works for files and directories

You could use find maybe, like

Finally got it to run without errors. I tried a different search in google and found this website

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...attern-in-bash

from which I found these two options for testing for the presence of one or more files of type whatever (JPG jpeg)


shopt -s nullglob
set -- *.txt
if [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; then
./script "$@" # call script with that list of files.
fi



$ ls
file1.pl file2.pl

# a failure
$ stat -t -- *.txt >/dev/null 2>&1
$ echo "$?"
1

# a success
$ stat -t -- *.pl >/dev/null 2>&1
$ echo "$?"
0

I used the first one and no more error messages from the rename command, also used it in the move to the other directory to stop the error I was getting if there were no files to move.