find files not equal to pattern

Question

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"?

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score 16 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 23 '12 at 05:20

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Aha! I found it here:

$ find . ! -path "*.git*"

edited Mar 23 '12 at 05:20

Alex Lockwood

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answered Mar 22 '12 at 15:35

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