Re: Reverse Wildcarding

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Matt Alexander wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Kyle Faber wrote:
>
> > 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?)
>
> ls -I \*.jpg

And to continue my previous response, you can delete all files that are
not *.jpg like this:

ls -I \*.jpg | xargs rm



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