Finding non-jpg files

Rob Blomquist rob.blomquist at verizon.net
Tue Aug 22 22:24:14 UTC 2006


>I have a large recursive directory of pictures that was once in a
>windows machine. Now that I have copied it to my linux box, I need to
>remove all the files that are NOT jpgs. How can I list all the files
>in a recursive directory that don't end in ".jpg" or ".jpeg"? A shell
>script would be nice, but even a gui program would help. Thanks.

I think that one could solve this with "ls -R regex" where the regex would look for the dot and 2 characters after. Then avoid them like the plague.

There are several help sites for regex on the net, and I have written a few, but I am no guru.

Rob
who only looks like a guru.

Rob Blomquist
Mountlake Terrace, WA




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