List files not matching a pattern?

Question

Here\'s how one might list all files matching a pattern in bash:

ls *.jar

How to list the complement of a pattern? i.e. all files not match

Answer 1

POSIX defines non-matching bracket expressions, so we can let the shell expand the file names for us.

ls *[!j][!a][!r]

This has some quirks though, but at least it is compatible with about any unix shell.