Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 12:56:13 +0400 From: Igor Roboul <igor@raduga.dyndns.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to delete all files but the XYZ file. Message-ID: <20000826125613.B27330@linux.rainbow> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008261122230.16809-100000@finland.ispro.net.tr>; from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 11:25:00AM %2B0300 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008261122230.16809-100000@finland.ispro.net.tr>
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On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 11:25:00AM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > Lets say I have 1230 files in one directory and I want to delete > all of the files but not the files named XYZ, XYA, XYB etc. > I want to do this from shell without using any file managers. (since > actually I need to do this from a script) Is there any directories? If no, then how do you think about this? ----------------------- mkdir .preserve mv XY* .preserve rm -f * mv .preserve/* . rmdir .preserve ----------------------- Pay attention, that mv does not move CONTENT of file, so this may be very fast -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga" http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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