ls command for specific name convention

Question

I am trying to use the ls command to list specific subdirectories within a directory.

The subdirectories have the following name convention:

abc.wiki.git
abc.git
cde.wiki.git
cde.git
fgh.wiki.git
fgh.git

I would only like to list the subdirectories that do not have "wiki" within the name.

Possible duplicate of [List files not matching a pattern?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8525437/list-files-not-matching-a-pattern) — bishop, Aug 29 '17 at 14:56

EMottet · Answer 1 · 2017-08-29T15:22:14.173

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I think for this use case, find is more clever.

$ find . -type d -not -name "*wiki*"

edited Aug 29 '17 at 15:22

answered Aug 29 '17 at 15:11

EMottet

Philip Kirkbride · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-29T15:02:19.727

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If you want to see everything in said sub-folders you could use:

ls | grep -v wiki | xargs ls

If you don't want to see inside each subdirectory just use:

ls | grep -v wiki

edited Aug 29 '17 at 15:02

answered Aug 29 '17 at 14:59

Philip Kirkbride

Why `| xargs ls`? – axiac Aug 29 '17 at 14:59
@axiac I thought he wants to look inside each git folder without wiki in the name? – Philip Kirkbride Aug 29 '17 at 15:00
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A good reason to pipe the result to `xargs ls` is to invoke `ls` with flags. The first `ls` lists only the file and directory names and the second `ls` can be invoked with `-a`, for example. – axiac Aug 29 '17 at 15:03

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