Using wildcards to match a directory in bash

Question

Lets say the folder structure is like so:

/home/
--user1/asdf
--user2/asdf1234
--user3/asdf325234
--cool/asdf

How could I change to asdf1234 without specifying the user? For example:

cd /home/*/asdf1234

How can I use "not" in bash? For example, lets say I want to go to /home/cool but use not capability:

cd /home/!user*/asdf is this possible?

Are these bash tricks possible?

Solution

Turn on the extglob shell option and then cd /home/!(user*)/asdf

Comments

[Emanuel Berg]

Hm, are you in fact asking two questions? The first question works as you describe it (if permissions are OK), with the * wildcard. Not in bash may look like ! or ^; check out man bash and search for those. Last, please make an effort to write better titles to your future questions.

[poige]

Is there any particular reason for using sed 1q instead of head -n1?

[pradeepchhetri]

@poige: i like sed and awk :) no other reason.