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06-21-2012, 11:13 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: fasdf
Distribution: Debian / Suse /RHEL
Posts: 1,130
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list file
can advise if I want to list file in a directory ( eg. ls /tmp ) but exclude the file which the file extension is .ext , can advise what can i do ?
thx
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06-21-2012, 11:47 PM
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Registered: Apr 2002
Location: earth
Distribution: slackware by choice, others too :} ... android.
Posts: 23,067
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ls -ld /tmp/!(*ext)
That is if shopt extglob is on ...
Last edited by Tinkster; 06-21-2012 at 11:48 PM.
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06-22-2012, 12:39 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: fasdf
Distribution: Debian / Suse /RHEL
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When I use the command , it pops the following error , can advise what is wrong? thx
bash: !: event not found
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06-22-2012, 12:46 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Sydney
Distribution: Rocky 9.x
Posts: 18,443
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Code:
ls |grep -v '.ext$'
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06-24-2012, 03:56 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ust
When I use the command , it pops the following error , can advise what is wrong? thx
bash: !: event not found
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man bash
/shopt
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06-24-2012, 07:22 PM
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Registered: Aug 2006
Location: Detroit, MI
Distribution: GNU/Linux systemd
Posts: 4,278
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Code:
shopt -s extglob
ls -alh /tmp/!(*ext)
To verify that it is excluding, you can always pipe it to grep.
Code:
ls -alh /tmp/!(*ext) | grep ext
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