Regex to catch all files but those starting with "."

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Published on 2010-05-25T22:14:50Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 22:21 UTC
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In a directory with mixed content such as:

.afile
.anotherfile
bfile.file
bnotherfile.file
.afolder/
.anotherfolder/
bfolder/
bnotherfolder/

How would you catch everything but the files (not dirs) starting with .?
I have tried with a negative lookahead ^(?!\.).+? but it doesn't seem to work right.
Please note that I would like to avoid doing it by excluding the . by using [a-zA-Z< plus all other possible chars minus the dot >]

Any suggestions?

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