Re: Copying in the IFS (or even just listing): exceptions/directories only?

[Kevin Bucknum <Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are just working with one directory, then you can use the ignore parm on ls.

ls -I "*.zip"

That is a capital i (eye).

On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 10:16 -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

On 2/1/21 10:02 AM, Chris Pando wrote:

find . -type f | egrep -v zip$


from the shell will give you every file that doesn't end with zip.


find . -type d


Interesting. I've used the Linux "find" (in fact, I use it like crazy in

our AWS EC2 instances), and I've used the MacOS/BSD "find" (which is

slightly, but maddeningly, different from the Linux version), but I

never knew that QShell had a "find."


And I see that the "-name" parameter also works (which also bears on the

problem).


And it seems much simpler (albeit perhaps less flexible) than Larry's

SQL solution (which is one I hadn't in my wildest dreams imagined).


The issue here is that we have a directory that contains too many

entries for WRKLNK to display without some serious subsetting, let alone

that it's too many entries for one human being to deal with in a

reasonable amount of time (e.g., complete the analysis sometime before

heat-death of the universe).


Just out of morbid curiosity, are there other solutions (that wouldn't

involve spending all day researching API calls and writing a program to

use them)?


Thanks.


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JHHL



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