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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
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In-Reply-To: <4B6090FC.4070002@gmail.com> (Aryeh M. Friedman's message of
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Subject: Re: finding every file not in a list
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*not* OT, I would say...

"Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> writes:

> I have a list of files that should be in a dir tree and want to remove
> any files from the tree not in list (i.e. if it is on the list keep it
> else rm it)... any quick way to do this?

mtree(8)

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/