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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:17:13 -0400
From: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>
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Hi,

Let's say I have a directory with la.txt and foo.sh and 6 million other
files.

Can I issue a command that says: delete everything BUT la.txt and foo.sh


According to man rm there's no way to do it with that one. Is there an
alternative?

Thanks,

Roman
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Roman Katsnelson                
UNIX Network Engineer 
Graphnet, Inc.

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