Hello I need to search for pattern in my direcotry which are not of format *.out.
I tried using ! for the not option.
The below command of mine did not work.
find . -name \!*.out -print
I also used the -not option for this and it too did not work.
find . -not \(-name *.out\) -print
Can anyone let me know of how I would use the not condition for displaying the files in my directory which are not of the format *.out
Thanks in advance for your help.
find . ! -name "*.out" -type f
find . \! -name \*.out
That will match "." too, so be careful how you process it. You might want to do
find . -type f -a \! -name \*.out
to only find files.
Further to malcolmpdx's valid point.
find . \( -type f -a ! -name "*.out" \) -print
Thanks , I am now able to retreive the exact data...
Another very useful option to find is the "prune" option, for eg.
find . -name "*.out" -prune -o -print
would give the same effect.
grep -v "*.out" *