Listing everything else than *{.tex, .aux} by ls

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How can you ls everything else the the files *{.tex, .aux}?

I run unsuccessfully

ls -I".tex"

ire_and_curses · Answer 1 · 2009-08-30 19:24:20Z

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ls -I*.tex -I*.aux

or

ls --hide=*.tex --hide=*.aux

answered Aug 30 '09 at 19:17

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sth · Answer 2 · 2009-08-30 19:48:44Z

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If you use bash and have the extglob shell option set (which is usually the case):

ls !(*.tex|*.aux)

answered Aug 30 '09 at 19:48

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	This is the one. See this same question over at ServerFault: serverfault.com/questions/41783/… – Telemachus Aug 30 '09 at 19:53
	Or this question at Stack Overflow: stackoverflow.com/questions/670460/move-all-files-except-one Which is a question by the same user where I already gave the same answer... – sth Aug 30 '09 at 20:21
	@Sth: Well, you got two upvotes out of it from me at least. (I only remembered the thread on Serverfault, since I learned this trick there.) – Telemachus Aug 30 '09 at 21:12

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anthonya7 · Answer 3 · 2010-08-02 20:16:23Z

If you're using zsh with EXTENDED_GLOB option set:

pattern~negpattern

where 'pattern' is what you want to match, except for anything matching 'negpattern'.

Example:

ls -d *~*.mp3

will list all the files in your cwd except those ending in '.mp3'.

If you're not using zsh, give it a try, this kind of intelligent expansion is everywhere.

studiohack · Answer 4 · 2011-06-24 06:29:22Z

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you may use:

ls | grep -v *.tex | grep -v *.aux

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answered Aug 30 '09 at 19:17

	I don't think that does what you think it does. `grep` takes regular expressions as parameters, not shell wildcards. Also, the shell will expand those wildcards first anyway. – Greg Hewgill Aug 30 '09 at 19:22
	"ls \| grep -v .tex \| grep -v .aux" seems to work. (On my machine, ls does not take the -I or --hide flags.) – las3rjock Aug 30 '09 at 19:48

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