Bash: loop through files that DO NOT match extension

Question

I\'m writing a bash script that needs to loop files inside a directory that do not match a specific extension. So far, I\'ve found that the following code loops all files th

Answer 1

If you are ok for a GNU solution, give a try to this:

for f in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type f \! -name \*.txt) ; do
  printf "%s\n" "${f}"
done

This is going to break if special chars are contained in the filenames, such as (space).

For something safe, still GNU, try:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f \! -name \*.txt -printf "%p\0" | xargs -0 sh -c '
    for f ; do
      printf "%s\n" "${f}"
    done' arg0