finding the opposite...

PokerFace · 10-16-2002, 07:39 AM

Hi,

is there a way that I can display al the filesnames + path that does not contain a specific string.

for example, I want all the filenames + path of files other then *.xls, *.doc, *.vsd, *.pdf and this for the directory root and all of it's subdirs.

I tried with:
find /root -type f | grep -v *.xls
but this gives me all the files, even the *.xls ones...

Can this be done or is it impossible what I ask from my linux machine?

Thanks in advance,

PF

unSpawn · 10-16-2002, 08:15 AM

find /root -type f | grep -v *.xls
Ooow, playing with the root account?.. :-]
try "find /root -type f -not -name \*.xls"