Regex egrep finds .gz but NOT.tar.gz

Question

I need to find all .gz

files, but not .tar.gz

files in a directory, and then send all .gz

files to some_other_command

for processing.

Until now I could:

find . -regextype egrep -regex '.*/*\.gz$|[NOT .tar.gz]' -exec some_other_command -- '{}' '+'

some_other_command

only files are needed .gz

, not .tar.gz

. What should be my part of the [NOT .tar.gz]

regex?

+3

ComputerFellow 05 Aug 14 at 10:01

2 answers

With lookbehind from grep:

find . | grep -P '(?<!\.tar)\.gz' | xargs some_other_command

0

Sergei Kurenkov 05 Aug 14 at 11:37

fedorqui · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-05T10:04:24+0000

You can use this:

find . -name "*.gz" ! -name "*.tar.gz" -exec some_other_command -- '{}' '+'
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
       I want        I do not want