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From: Adam Nealis <adamn@criterion.canon.co.uk>
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Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote:

> Hello,
>
> what about : (under csh)
>
> foreach i (`ls | grep -v la.txt | grep -v foo.sh`)
> rm $i
> end

ls can complain if you have (a zillion)^zillion files in a dir, so I'd be
inclined to do

find . -type f -print > /tmp/bigffilelist
foreach i (`grep -v la.txt /tmp/bigfilelist`)
rm $i
end

Coz find just reads the entries in the directory file one by one, unlike ls
which tries to sort the buggers. Also a bit faster because there is no sort.

Adam.


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