Re: list all except

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Eric Smith wrote:
> What is the zsh way to select all files except 
> those matching a regex?

(You mean globbing pattern, not regular expression, right?)

Use ^pat, which excludes everything matching pat, or pat1~pat2, which
selects based on pat1, then excludes based on pat2.  These require
extendedglob.  For example,

setopt extendedglob
print -l ^*.o

You can also "setopt kshglob" and use the ksh forms that bash now
understands.  These tend to be clumsier.

See the list of "Glob Operators" in the zshexpn manual page.

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