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regex: exclude file from directory

Alexandre Arents — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 07:38:50 GMT

Hello,

I'm looking for a regex pattern which exclude a specific file/directory and match all others within an directory, example:

$ls -ld /rep/*
/rep/car
/rep/loft
/rep/andsoon
...
and I want to match all filename but not loft

The best I found is:
ls -ld /rep/[^l]*
which exclude all filename beginning by 'l' but not the string "^loft$".

Any idea ?
Thanks

Re: regex: exclude file from directory

Pete Randall — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 07:43:16 GMT

Does it have to be with regexp(s) or would grep do?
ls -ld /rep/* |grep -v loft

Pete

Re: regex: exclude file from directory

Alexandre Arents — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 07:48:58 GMT

I forgot to tell you something:

This is for a veritas netbackup policy configuration which use regex library but not a pipe to grep.

Re: regex: exclude file from directory

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 07:51:34 GMT

Hi,

^ means beginning of string
! means not.

try this:
ls -ld /rep/* | grep -v /rep/loft

greetings,

Michael

Re: regex: exclude file from directory

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:00:00 GMT

Hi,

btw, regular expressions and the way a shell evaluates file names are different. We need to know for sure, what veritas uses.

greetings,

Michael