How do I fix my globbing syntax when using grep -v and shell_exec

[UnluckyForSome]

Hi!

I want to list files that match a certain pattern:

Name (Europe)

but also DOES NOT contain the pattern:

(??,

AKA an open bracket, two characters which could be anything and a comma - For example (En,

I am having to use shell_exec as the script is going through all sorts of files with funny characters. So far I have:

$fCheck = trim(shell_exec("ls -1 \"{$niceName} (Europe)\"* 2>/dev/null | grep -v '(??,'"));

But I think the globbing syntax is wrong? That or the shell_exec is messing it up somehow. Apologies for my lack of knowledge!

[UnluckyForSome]

Seem to have fixed this with

 grep -v '([A-Z][a-z],'