find that excludes directories that are number dash number

Question

I'm trying to write a find command that excludes directories that are numbers dash number, but allow other directories.

Sample directories

./135888897-135954433/
./135888897-135954434/
./135888897-135954435/
./BLAG-DEF-JOB1/
./TOM-DEPLOYDEV-JOB1/
./FRANK-RELEASE-JOB1/
./STEVE-RELEASE-JOB1/

Here's part of my find command. I can't seem to get it to skip the number directories.

find . -type f ! -regex '\./[0-9]+\-[0-9]+/*'

Any help would be great. Thanks!

Answer 1

You should use .* instead of *.
When useing regex a * means 'match the preceding token 0 or more times'

This will result in the following command:

find . -type f ! -regex '\./[0-9]+\-[0-9]+/.*'

Update: I also thought you forgot to escape the / in your command, but after doing a little bit of research it seems escaping / is not necessary when using the find command.

Answer 2

You can use:

find . -type f ! -regex '\./[0-9]+-[0-9]+/.*'