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I have a folder filled with 9 Robot Framework test files. Only 8 of them have to be executed, as the last one is used to set up all the others (let's call it config.robot).

If I had to run all those tests I would have done something like

for test_file in folder/*.robot; do

    robot -b debug.log -d log/ $test_file.robot;

done

but in this case it means that config.robot will also be run, which I don't want.

How could I perform a for loop on all files in folder except one?

If that helps, all files except config.robot respect the following naming syntax: they all start with their execution order and are followed by their actual name, e.g. 01__init-connection.robot.

Edit: Before posting that question I had already seen and tried the answers offered in Exclude one pattern from glob match and wrote something similar to

shopt -s extglob

for test_file in folder/!(config).robot; do ...

But Robot Framework does not recognize the file name:

Parsing 'folder/!(config).robot' failed: Data source does not exist.

so I guess that Robot Framework doesn't like that syntax.

I'm thinking about setting a variable with the results of a find according to a regex matching my filename structure and then performing the for loop on the variable:

SUITES=$(find . -regex '^[0-9][0-9][a-zA-Z_-]*')

for SUITE in $SUITES; do robot -b ...

But for some reason when I echo SUITES it returns nothing. I don't know what I missed here.

In bash, as tagged:

shopt -s extglob

for test_file in folder/!(config).robot; do robot -b debug.log -d log/ "$test_file".robot; done

You can use the continue command.

Also note that the variable picks up the whole path.

for f in folder/*.robot; do

    test "$f" = folder/config.robot && continue 

    robot -b debug.log -d log/ "$f"

done

Try this,

for test_file in folder/*.robot; 

do 

    [ "$test_file" != "config.robot" ] && robot -b debug.log -d log/ $test_file.robot;

done

• 
  robot will run only if $test_file is not equal to config.robot
  

or simple using find

find folder/*.robot ! -name "config.robot" -exec robot -b debug.log -d log/ {} +