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From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <gollucci@wam.umd.edu>
To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>
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Subject: Re: how to delete all files but the XYZ file.
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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
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