[SOLVED] find regex

[kostaky]

Hi all,

I am trying to find all files older than 15 days with extensions other than gz, for some reason the find I have does not have regextype switch, please advise regex that will do it

find . -type f -regex .*.^gz -mtime +15

obviously did not work as by default find uses emacs regexes which use ^ for beginning of line. Your help much appreciated!

SuSE Linux, 2.6.5-7.312

[burschik]

I don't quite see what your regular expression is supposed to match, and you should definitely use quotes as well. I assume you are looking for files that do not have the "extension" ".gz". In that case, you don't even need regular expressions. A simple

-not -name "*.gz"

will do.

[kostaky]

Thanks very much, it worked! Quoted the name in the script, thanks for the hint.