On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 11:51, anton wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to get a list of the files in a directory that do NOT end with 
> ".dat". I just can't work out how to do it - any suggestions?
> Cheers
> Anton
> ps, i started with the idea of $ ls | grep \^d^a^t but it fails 
> miserably :-(

Close. Try:

ls | grep -v "\.dat$"

Vik :v)
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