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Old 09-27-2009
List all files except *.txt in a directory
I have many types of files (Eg: *.log, *.rpt, *.txt, *.dat) in a directory. I want to display all file types except *.txt.

What is the command to display all files except "*.txt"
# 2  
Old 09-27-2009
Code:
 find -not -iname "*.txt"

# 3  
Old 09-27-2009
I want the listing only from current directory not from its child ddirectories. find willl list out all the files from current as well as child directories

ls -lrt |grep -v '.txt' will give me the desired result. however i want to know is there any direct option in ls command available
# 4  
Old 09-27-2009
you can use the maxdepth option to find to limit result to current directory:

Code:
find -not -iname "*.txt" -maxdepth 1

# 5  
Old 09-27-2009
The shell (bash and ksh) pattern would be:
Code:
!(*.txt)

All the solutions so far include sub-directories. To list only files, and one more condition to varontron's find:

Code:
find -not -iname "*.txt" -maxdepth 1 -type f

Last edited by binlib; 09-27-2009 at 02:18 PM..
# 6  
Old 09-28-2009
find + xargs
find / -type f ! -name "*.txt" | xargs ls -lrt
# 7  
Old 09-28-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by binlib
The shell (bash and ksh) pattern would be:
Code:
!(*.txt)

Cool, I never thought of that...

So

Code:
ls -F1 !(*.txt)|grep '\b$'

would work too I guess

- edit - should be :

Code:
ls -dF1 !(*.txt)|grep '\b$'

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 09-28-2009 at 06:26 PM..
 
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