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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need script to find errored files inside directories Post 302238972 by jim mcnamara on Monday 22nd of September 2008 12:59:20 PM
Old 09-22-2008
What you are asking is to create a resultset that all files minus pattern1 minus pattern2

The only problem for this is that we will have to use grep -v. The file matching patterns become regular expressions
Code:
??????.xls
# becomes regex:
[0-9]{6}\.xls

This will happen for every file you want to exclude. Otherwise, you cannot just
Code:
ls !(pattern)

for five different files because each instance of !(pattern2) will show other patterns like pattern2 pattern3... etc.
Code:
# generalized solution
ls directory | grep -v -e 'regex1' -e 'regex2' -e 'regex3'

Therefore you have to construct 50 different regexes (one for each file you have to specify) and apply some of them to the correct directory output from ls. I cannot do that for you.
 

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