On Friday 22 August 2003 07:32 pm, Udo Rader wrote:
> hi,
>
> I have a directory that contains several hundred files and I want to
> copy them all except _one_ file.
>
> This sounds so easy yet still I am stuck or blind or stupid. Is there
> no "not" operator in bash?
>
> If it were, some construct like the thing below could then list all
> files in "/opt/too_many_files" except "no_not_this_one":
>
> % ls -l /opt/too_many_files/*{!no_not_this_one}
>
> Yes, I know this doesn't work, but is there any other efficient way
> to do this in bash?
>
> happy hacking
>
> udo
Look at ls's -I option (aka --ignore=PATTERN). For example:
ls -l -I no_not_this_one /opt/too_many_files/
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