How to grep for all the files in a directory that do not have a set of file extensions?
Question
In a given directory or say a report file that contains a list of names of files with various extensions. Basically I want to list down files that are not of few set of file extensions. say .log, .html, .txt. Can someone please help me to exactly grep excluding these set of file extensions. Thanks in advance
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0 ACCPTED 2014-11-27 17:33:42
You could try the below grep command.
grep -vE '.*\.(log|html|txt)$' file
From man grep
-v, --invert-match select non-matching lines
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