I want to list all ASCII files that are without extensions(.txt) in my present working directory(home).
I started with the ls command in the terminal but i don't know what i should put in the options as i want to list files that have no extensions but only a name.
How do i do it?
Run the following command:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name "*.*" -exec grep -lvIP '[^[:ascii:]]' {} +
find is a more powerful ls.. -maxdepth 1 means only the current directory-type f means only files! -name "*.*" means excluding files with an extension-exec grep...{} + means filter the list of files through the grep command-lvIP '[^[:ascii:]]' means show only files -l which do not contain -v any non(^)-ascii characters, and also do not contain binary data(-I). Perl-syntax -P is required to use the [:ascii:] character class in the pattern.
