Find files without a number

filenamesfindwildcards

I am trying to write a simple script that will iterate through all drives except sda. Right now I have this

for i in $(find /dev/ -name "sd*" ! -name "sda*")
do
        echo $i
done

However this includes partitions like /dev/sdb1, whereas I only want the root drive like /dev/sdb.

How do I modify the find statement to guarantee I don't get any of the numbered files?

Don't use command substition in that manner, you'll end up with problems when word splitting is applied. Just do

find /dev/ -regex '/dev/sd[a-z]+' ! -name 'sda'

If your true objective is to show base block devices, just look in /sys/block.

you could use: find . -type f ! -name "*.*" the ! negates the following expression, here a filename that contains a '.'

you can also use the -maxdepth option to reduce the search depth.

With simple -name:

find /var/log -name '*.[2-9]'

or for any digit:

find /var/log -name '*.[[:digit:]]'

or if other chars are possible after digit:

find /var/log -name '*.[2-9]*'