In occasions we might tend to follow the eliminate rule to find out the desired output.
find is one of the powerful command used to locate files on a Unix or Linux system.
For using find to exclude pattern, we need to add a ‘!‘ before the expression as:
find <path> ! -name “<expression>”
Eg: find . ! -name “*.mp3″ => finds all files/folders in the current working directory except with name ending in .mp3
To exclude more than one pattern,
find <path> ! \( -name “<expression1>” -o -name “<expression1>” \)
Eg: find . ! \( -name “*.png” -o -name “*.jpg” -o -name “*.pdf” \) => finds all files/folders in the current working directory except with name ending in .png, .jpg and .pdf
Note:
space before \) is important
-iname in place of -name implies pattern case insensitive