find all files except e.g. *.xml files in shell

Question

Using bash, how to find files in a directory structure except for *.xml files? I'm just trying to use

find . -regex ....

regexe:

'.*^((?!xml).)*$'

but without expected results...

or is there another way to achieve this, i.e. without a regexp matching?

Answer 1

find . ! -name "*.xml" -type f

Answer 2

find . -not -name '*.xml'

Should do the trick.

Answer 3

Sloppier than the find solutions above, and it does more work than it needs to, but you could do

find . | grep -v '\.xml$'

Also, is this a tree of source code? Maybe you have all your source code and some XML in a tree, but you want to only get the source code? If you were using ack, you could do:

ack -f --noxml

Answer 4

with bash:

shopt -s extglob globstar nullglob
for f in **/*!(.xml); do 
    [[ -d $f ]] && continue
    # do stuff with $f
done