I would like to find files not matching *.jpg (case insensitive), can
anyone tell me how to use GNU find to do that? I know I can use -
iname to be case insensitive but I can't find out how to exclude all
the files that match rather than include them.

At 2007-11-30 05:35AM, "Eliot" wrote:
> I would like to find files not matching *.jpg (case insensitive), can
> anyone tell me how to use GNU find to do that? I know I can use -
> iname to be case insensitive but I can't find out how to exclude all
> the files that match rather than include them.

find . -type f \( ! -iname \*.jpg \) -print

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On 2007-11-30, Glenn Jackman <glennj [at] ncf.ca> wrote:
> At 2007-11-30 05:35AM, "Eliot" wrote:
>> I would like to find files not matching *.jpg (case insensitive), can
>> anyone tell me how to use GNU find to do that? I know I can use -
>> iname to be case insensitive but I can't find out how to exclude all
>> the files that match rather than include them.
>
> find . -type f \( ! -iname \*.jpg \) -print

or also
find . -type f ! -iname '*.jpg'



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