exclude certain files in ls

Solution 1:

ls -I <filename>

-I = Ignore the filename, i.e., don't list the specified file.

To ignore more than one file add an -I before each filename.

ls -I file1 -I file2

To ignore files by their name extensions do the following, for example.

ls -I "*.jpg" -I "*.svg"

For me if I use -I once, it works but if I use twice it doesn't. e.g: ls -I *.csv works.

But ls -I *.csv -I *.txt doesn't work and returns txt files instead.

--ignore did the trick for me. This is what I needed and worked.

ls -lhrt --ignore="*.gz" --ignore="*.1"

That will list me files from log folder where it exclude old backup logs.

ls --ignore={"*.jpg","*.png","*.svg"}