bug#69261: 'ls' : --ignore does not apply on FILEs selection

[Paul Eggert]

On 2024-02-18 14:07, Mathias MICHEL via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:

> Is it expected that --ignore arg does not apply on globbed FILE ?

Yes. --ignore is about what 'ls' finds in directories, not about 
command-line arguments.

> My goal is to avoid using grep or complex find args:
> > > ~/.ssh :: ls id_ed* | grep -v "\.pub$" > id_ed25519 id_ed25519.local 
> > id_ed25519_ori

Try this:

  ls --hide='[^i]*' --hide='i[^d]*' --hide='id[^_]*' --hide='id_[^e]*' 
--hide='id_e[^d]*' --hide='*.pub'

Admittedly ugly, but does the job.