List files that don't match a string in bash

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Published on 2010-04-23T10:36:08Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 10:43 UTC
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Dear all,

I'm a newbie in bash and I would like to pass as parameter to a python function all files in a directory that don't match a given pattern. sth. like:

$myscripts/myprog.py $myfiles/!(bonjovi)

The above example should retrieve all files that don't match to "bonjovi".

Best wishes

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