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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Searching for file names in a directory while ignoring certain file names Post 302379723 by jstrangfeld on Friday 11th of December 2009 05:30:43 PM
Old 12-11-2009
anything keeping you from doing your find and doing a |grep -v on whatever you want to exclude?
Or alternatively |grep ".txt"
 

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