Regex to catch all files but those starting with "."
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?
Answer
This should do it:
^[^.].*$
[^abc] will match anything that is not a, b or c