How to list a directory "all except"

[Brian Cluff]

A few more just to mix it up a bit.

Delete lines from ls output that have htm at the end
ls -ltr |sed '/\.htm$/d'

You can also use perl, the swiss army club:
ls -l |perl -n -e 'print unless /\.htm$/'

This one might be the most efficient of the bunch, since it's all in one 
command:
find -not -iname "*.pdf" -printf "%M %2n %u %g %8s %Cb %Cd %CY %f\n"

This is a cool one that is bash specific, but it only works on the 
current directory:
shopt -s extglob
ls -lt !(*.htm)

Brian Cluff

On 08/07/2013 08:04 AM, joe at 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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