Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 11:29:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to delete all files but the XYZ file. Message-ID: <20000826112924.A25714@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008261122230.16809-100000@finland.ispro.net.tr>; from "Evren Yurtesen" on Sat Aug 26 11:25:00 GMT 2000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008261122230.16809-100000@finland.ispro.net.tr>
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In the last episode (Aug 26), Evren Yurtesen said:
> Lets say I have 1230 files in one directory and I want to delete
> all of the files but not the files named XYZ, XYA, XYB etc.
> I want to do this from shell without using any file managers. (since
> actually I need to do this from a script)
You could do
for i in * ; do
case i in
XY*) ;;
*) echo $i ;;
esac
done | xargs rm
, but that will print an error on directories (and not recurse into
them). You could also try
find . ! -name "XY*" | xargs rm
, which will recurse into subdirs as well.
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@emsphone.com
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