Re: regular expression?

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

also sprach William Jensen (on Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:22:31PM -0600):
> I am trying to find a regular expression that will include every file
> in a directory except one named one.  For example if I had a file
> called index.html and then hundreds of other .html files in the same
> directory, how can I do a reg expression to say "all the .html files"
> except index.html?  Been rack'n my brain on this one for a bit of time
> and I could use some help from someone more experienced.

if you can use grep, then

ls | grep -v "index\.html"

should do.

otherwise you are facing the same problem as i was previously, which
is that the grammar of regular expressions (aside from perl's) cannot
treat a word as an entity which it can negate. the closest i got was

"[^i][^n][^d][^e][^x]", but this will exclude all words with i as the
first character, or n as the second, or d as the third...

i would be very interested in a solution...

martin

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