Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 19:11:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <gollucci@wam.umd.edu> 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: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0008261910550.2298-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008261122230.16809-100000@finland.ispro.net.tr>
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the rm command supports regex expressions. ***************************************************************************** Philip M. Gollucci (p6m7g8) Web-site : http://www.p6m7g8.com E-mail : gollucci@wam.umd.edu Philip@p6m7g8.com Phone : 301.249.6261 (Home) 301. . (College) Major : Computer Science Electrical Engineering Minor : Classical & Jazz Performance Current Job : Co Science, Discovery, & the Universe Webmaster URL: http://www.sdu.umd.edu Resume : http://www.wam.umd.edu/~gollucci/resume.html ***************************************************************************** On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > 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) > > Evren > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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