Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:23:26 -0600 From: CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: finding every file not in a list Message-ID: <4B620E5E.2040908@cyberleo.net> In-Reply-To: <4B6090FC.4070002@gmail.com> References: <4B6090FC.4070002@gmail.com>
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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > I have a list of files that should be in a dir tree and want to remove > any files from the tree not in list (i.e. if it is on the list keep it > else rm it)... any quick way to do this? # ls -1F keep old/ # find old old old/a old/a/1 old/a/4 old/b old/b/2 old/b/5 old/c old/c/3 old/c/6 # find new find: new: No such file or directory # cat keep a/4 b/5 c/6 # ( cd old; cat ../keep | cpio -pld ../new ) /tmp/old 0 blocks # ls -1F keep new/ old/ # find new new new/a new/a/4 new/b new/b/5 new/c new/c/6 -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net <CyberLeo@CyberLeo.Net> Furry Peace! - http://wwww.fur.com/peace/
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