find all files except e.g. *.xml files in shell

Question

Using bash, how to find files in a directory structure except for *.xml files? I\'m just trying to use

find . -regex ....

regexe:

Answer 1

You can also do it with or-ring as follows:

find . -type f -name "*.xml" -o -type f -print

Answer 2

with bash:

shopt -s extglob globstar nullglob
for f in **/*!(.xml); do 
    [[ -d $f ]] && continue
    # do stuff with $f
done

Answer 3

Sloppier than the find solutions above, and it does more work than it needs to, but you could do

find . | grep -v '\.xml$'

Also, is this a tree of source code? Maybe you have all your source code and some XML in a tree, but you want to only get the source code? If you were using ack, you could do:

ack -f --noxml

Answer 4

find . ! -name "*.xml" -type f

Answer 5

Try something like this for a regex solution:

find . -regextype posix-extended -not -regex '^.*\.xml$'

Answer 6

find . -not -name '*.xml'

Should do the trick.