Search with find and exclude files (by their extension) from the results

As many of you know I use KDE, however, although I love the convenience and comfort that KDE offers me (because it is extremely complete), I do not remotely use all the options it brings, even some basic ones.

When any of you want to search in X folder for all the .jpg files or simply those that contain "wedding" in their name, use the system search engine, because I don't 🙂

It is not that I am more geek, nerdy or freaky than others, I simply use find (in obvious terminal) because I find it incredibly more productive, it is simpler for me to search with find in a terminal that has open (using Yakuake) you have to open the system browser.

Well, not long ago I wanted to find all the files whose name contains «collection«But I did NOT want to see the .gif files, how to achieve something like that? … How to tell find not to show me the .gif even if its name contains "Collection"?

The first thing that occurred to me is something as simple as:

find $HOME -iname *collection* | grep -v .gif

 This would find with find all files that have "collection" in their name, but using grep I made sure that the terminal only shows me what is DIFFERENT from «.gif» and ... yes, it works wonders 😀

But you don't really need to use two commands (find + grep) to achieve this, with find is enough for us:

find $HOME -iname *collection* -not \( -iname "*\.gif" \)

And that's it ... but the post doesn't end here 🙂

What if we want to delete those files that were shown?

For this we only have to add the parameter -delete on the line, that is:

find $HOME -iname *collection* -not \( -iname "*\.gif" \) -delete

What if we just want to change the permissions to 755?

For this we will use the -Exec from find:

find $HOME -iname *collection* -not \( -iname "*\.gif" \) -exec chmod 755 {} \;

And voila 🙂
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