Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 19:03:37 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: t-u-t <marshc187@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shell commands - exclusion Message-ID: <20090204180337.GC64529@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <332f78510902040635k6675a9b6u434879b42c66a579@mail.gmail.com> References: <332f78510902040635k6675a9b6u434879b42c66a579@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:35:52PM +0100, t-u-t wrote:
> hi, i don't know if this is a freak question, but i was looking around to
> see if this is possible, and what the convention would be.
>=20
> if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many others,
> and i want to perform any said function like cp, mv, rm, etc.. , to all
> other files except that one or two, is there a way to do that in a single
> command?
> e.g
> rm -r * {-except foo1 foo15}
The easiest way would be to move the few files/directories you don't
want to include in your command out of the way first. :-)
> and if there is, could the same be applied to other similar batch (?)
> operations, like pkg_delete -f "*" { except firefox3 wine thunderbird }
> etc..
I don't think so.
If the couple of files you don't want to rm/whatever you could try using
the find(1) command to get all the other files. The find command is a
very good tool to know.
> i'm a bit new to the shell (took me a while to figure out *ls* and *ls |
> more*), but i can't find anything from google cuz i don't know what this
> would be called in the first place.
Maybe a stupid question, but do you know how to read manual pages?
E.g. for 'find', just enter the command 'man find' in your shell.
> otherwise is it better to protect them with chflags or other trickery?
That would be my other suggestion.
Roland
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R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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