File Exclusion Ranges

Most internal commands which accept wildcards also accept file exclusion 
ranges to further define the files that you wish to work with.  CMD.EXE 
examines each file name and excludes files that match the names you have 
specified in a file exclusion range. 

A file exclusion range begins with the switch character (usually a slash), 
followed by a left square bracket and an exclamation mark ("[!")  The 
range ends with a right square bracket ("]"). 

Inside the brackets, you can list one or more filenames to be excluded 
from the command.  The filenames can include wildcards and extended 
wildcards, but cannot include path names or drive letters. 

The following example will display all files in the current directory 
except backup files (files with the extension .BAK or .BKP): 

        [c:\] dir /[!*.bak *.bkp] *.*

You can combine file exclusion ranges with date, time, and size ranges 
 This example displays all files that are 10K bytes or larger in size and 
that were created in the last 7 days, except .C and .H files: 

        [c:\] dir /[s10k] /[d-7] /[!*.c *.h] *.*

File exclusion ranges will only work for CMD.EXE internal commands.  The 
EXCEPT command can be used to exclude files from processing by many 
external commands.