How to find files excluding symbolic links?

I want to find files in Linux that follow a certain pattern but I am not interested in symbolic links.

There doesn't seem to be an option to the find command for that.

How shall I do ?

Solution 1:

Check the man page again ;) It's:

find /path/to/files -type f

type f searches for regular files only - excluding symbolic links.

! -type l

For example, if you want to search all regular files in /usr/bin, excluding symlink:

find /usr/bin/ \! -type l