12-11-2009
Searching for file names in a directory while ignoring certain file names
Sun Solaris Unix Question
Haven't been able to find any solution for this situation. Let's just say the file names listed below exist in a directory. I want the find command to find all files in this directory but at the same time I want to eliminate certain file names or files with certain extensions. For example :
Files in directory
----------------
testfile1.txt
testfile2.txt
testfile3.txt
testfile4.txt
testfile1.exe
testfile2.exe
testfile3.exe
testfile4.exe
I have a find command like :
find . -name '*' -print > filelist.lst
This would obviously give me all of the file names listed above in the file called filelist.lst.
However, what command syntax would I use if I wanted to ignore *.exe files. So, in the end this find command should generate a file called filelist.lst which should contain only the names of the files that end in .txt.
I tried the -not command but that is not valid in my version of Sun Solaris. (i.e. find . -name "*' -not \( -name "*.exe" \) -print > filelist.lst )
---------- Post updated at 03:09 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:57 PM ----------
Disregard. I finally found the answer.
find . -name '*' ! -name '*.exe' -print > filelist.lst
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