Question

I have a directory with a list of files like so:

  1.html
  1.html.v1
  1.html.v2
  2.html
  2.html.v1
  a.pdf
  a.pdf.v1
  b.pdf
  b.pdf.v1
  b.pdf.v2

In bash, how can I list all the files that do not end with a .v[Number]?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can use grep -v to filter away the .v[0-9]* stuff:

ls | grep -v ".v[0-9]*$"

For your example this gives

1.html
2.html
a.pdf
b.pdf