Of course, a regex is overkill in the below example; the equivalent is:
while (<DIRLIST>) {
next unless $_ eq 'index.html';
....
}
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Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 07:22:31PM -0600, William Jensen wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am trying to find a regular expression that will include every file
> > in a directory except one named one. For example if I had a file
> > called index.html and then hundreds of other .html files in the same
> > directory, how can I do a reg expression to say "all the .html files"
> > except index.html? Been rack'n my brain on this one for a bit of time
> > and I could use some help from someone more experienced.
>
> Note sure in what context you are doing this, but in perl I would do:
>
> while (<DIRLIST>) {
> /^index.html$/ and next;
> ....
> }
>
> and in shell
>
> for file in `ls * | egrep -v '^index.html$'`; do
> ....
> done
>
> Ben
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