01-26-2011
Find files that do not match specific patterns
Hi all,
I have been searching online to find the answer for getting a list of files that do not match certain criteria but have been unsuccessful.
I have a directory that has many jpg files. What I need to do is get a list of the files that do not match both of the following patterns (I have used the ? to act as any single character-in my case these are stricly numbers):
???-??-????.jpp AND ???-??-????-?mi.jpg
I would like to output the result to a text file.
Once I have this list it would be very helpful if anyone could propose an easy way to rename the files that to not match this pattern.
many thanks
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