$GLOBIGNORE  –  Ignored Patterns for Filename Expansion

$GLOBIGNORE is a colon-separated list of patterns. Each pattern defines filenames, which are ignored by filename expansion. Files, which match one of the patterns, are removed from the list of expanded filenames.

Links

• Bash manual

Examples

Exclude temporary files from filename expansion:

1 2	GLOBIGNORE='tmp_*' ls *.sh