On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 17:05, Kyle Faber wrote: > Evening, > > I'm sure its possible, but is there a 'quick' way to reverse a wildcard? > > Say I wanted a list of all the "not Jpegs" in a directory? How difficult > would crafting the following command be? > > ls [Everything that is not] *.jpg Probably not what you are looking for, but how about: # ls | egrep -v "*.jpg" --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss