Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:23:23 -0800 From: Jason <jhelfman@e-e.com> To: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> Cc: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: finding every file not in a list Message-ID: <20100127192322.GK43904@eggman.experts-exchange.com> In-Reply-To: <20100127191737.GA70795@orion.hsd1.pa.comcast.net> References: <4B6090FC.4070002@gmail.com> <20100127191737.GA70795@orion.hsd1.pa.comcast.net>
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You could probably use rsync with :
--exclude-from=FILE read exclude patterns from FILE
-jgh
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 02:17:37PM -0500, Glen Barber thus spake:
>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
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