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I want to find all files/dirs that are not equal to .git*, so I tried the following commands, but it has the opposite effect (it prints the paths that contain .git).
$ find . ! -name "*.git"
$ find . ! -name ".*.git"
$ find . ! -name "*.git*"
$ find . ! -regex "*.git"
$ find . ! \( -name "*.git*" \)
I also tried the above commands with a \! escape, as in find . \! -name "*.git".
Q: What’s the correct syntax for find “not equal to”?
Aha! I found it here: