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Selective listing of files using ls

I have a set of files in a directory named

abc
data.txt
hello
hello1
hello1.text
hello.txt

I want to list only the files hello and hello1.

I tried using this command ls -lrt hello* | ls -lrt !(hello*.*)

The output which I got is

abc
data.txt
hello
hello1

The pipe function is not working in this scenario.

Please help me with this issue

Solution

  • since you tagged with grep, give this a try:

    ls -l |grep 'hello1\?$'

    if the digit could be dynamic, try this 

    ls -l|grep 'hello[0-9]*$'