To answer your last question specifically:
ls -ltr | grep -v htm$
I don't know if ls has some sort of exclude option, so I would just use grep.
Sean
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:04 AM, <
joe@actionline.com> wrote:
> What syntax would one use to list all the contents
> of a directory *except* those of a specified criteria?
>
> For example, I know that: ls -ltr *htm
> lists all contents ending in 'htm'
>
> But how could I list all contents excluding those ending in 'htm'?
>
>
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