Exclude images from a Linux find

If you want to find all files in a sub directory and you don't want images to show up in the list here is a way to do it:

[local_username@localhost /]$ find /some/dir/ -type f $ -name '*.png' -o -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.jpeg' -o -name '*.gif' $ -prune -o -exec stat --format='%n' {} \;

Explanation:

find - the command Linux uses to find files recursively

/some/dir/ - the directory you want to search

-type f - search only files of type f that is to say search files and not directories

\( - start list of options to skip

-name '*.png' - match any file of the form *.png (example.png)

-o - or

-name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.jpeg' -o -name '*.gif' - other common image extensions

\) - end list of options to skip

-prune - remove anything that meets the previous options

-o -exec - run the following example command against the file

stat --format='%n' - get the files name (this is here just as an example, you could put what ever options you want here)

{} - the file name from find

\; - marks the end of the -exec option