Match all files except directories ?

Vilius · 02-09-2009, 02:36 AM

Hi,

What wildcards I should use to do that ?

thanks
Vilius

i92guboj · 02-09-2009, 02:49 AM

I guess you could use this:

Code:

find /whatever/dir/ \! -type d

Note that this will list anything that's not a directory. It will also list symlinks, including those that point to directories, so be careful with whatever you are going to be doing. Also, the "!" needs escaping in bash because that character has a special meaning in bash. But if you are using another shell it might not be necessary.