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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:17:37 -0500
From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: finding every file not in a list
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Hi,

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?

Perhaps something like this will help:

	find /dir -type f | \
		grep -v `cat excludelist` | \
		xargs rm 

Regards,

-- 
Glen Barber