I need my script to do something to every file in the current directory excluding any sub-directories.
For example, in the current path, there are 5 files, but 1 of them is a folder (a sub-directory).
My script should activate a command given as arguments when running said script. I.e. "bash script wc -w" should give the word count of each file in the current directory, but not any of the folders, so that the output never has any of the "/sub/dir: Is a directory" lines.
My current script:
#!/bin/bash
dir=`pwd`
for file in $dir/*
do
$* $file
done
I just need to exclude directories for the loop, but I don`t know how.
Best Answer
Note that it also excludes files that are of type symlink and where the symlink resolves to a file of type directory (which is probably what you want).
Alternative (from comments), check only for files: