How can I list all files except files of extensions [ jpg , png , mkv , etc]? [ BASH wildcards]

Question

I can list files with above extensions by

ls *[m,j,p][n,k,p][v,g]

But I want to list all files except these filetypes

Answer 1

You can use grep like this:

$ ls | grep -v '[\.jpg$|\.png$|\.mkv$]'

The grep command, filters out text that match provided regular expression. If -v flag is used, then it filters out text that do not match provided regular expression (reverse).