Re: Reverse Wildcarding

Try this:

     ls | grep -v .jpg

     "grep -v" says give me the lines that don't match.

On Tuesday 15 June 2004 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
>
> It would be awesome if I could transfer this syntax to all commands (how
> easy would directory cleanup be if I could reverse an rm command?)
>
> Ideas?
>
> Kyle Faber
> EMR Internet
> kyle@emr.net
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