Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:05:29 -0500 From: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> To: t-u-t <marshc187@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shell commands - exclusion Message-ID: <ae4324ed0902041905p4497c155u5d474533bbd5151f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <332f78510902040635k6675a9b6u434879b42c66a579@mail.gmail.com> References: <332f78510902040635k6675a9b6u434879b42c66a579@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:35 AM, t-u-t <marshc187@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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}
I'm just shooting in the dark here, but what about this?
ls | grep -v foo1 | grep -v foo15 | xargs rm -rf
Remember the Unix "pipe" and the grep and xargs commands. It can
solve a lot of things by stringing together a lot of smaller commands.
I think that this might be one of those situations.
Good luck,
Jaime
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