Bash: loop through files that DO NOT match extension

Question

I\'m writing a bash script that needs to loop files inside a directory that do not match a specific extension. So far, I\'ve found that the following code loops all files th

Answer 1

Do

find /path/to/look -type f -not -name "*.txt" -print0 | while read -r -d '' file_name
do
echo "$file_name"
done

when your filenames may be nonstandard.

Note:

If you don't wish to recursively search for files in subfolders include -maxdepth 1
just before -type f.