[Technic] linux help

[Scott Mayo]

Ricky Nance wrote:
> Hope this doesn't post twice, but I had an email problem when I sent it the
> first time.
> 
> mkdir /dir1.bak; mv /dir1/save1 /dir1.bak; mv /dir1/save2 /dir1.bak; rm /dir1
> -fdr (use with caution, it recursivly deletes without asking the dir1!!!); mv
> /dir1.bak /dir1

Thanks Ricky, but I was just wondering if I can do this without having 
to do an actual mv of directories.

I know that I can 'ls * | grep -v save' to list everything except the 
things in the directory 'save'.  I guess I need to somehow pass the 
output to the rm, but not sure how.  I have not done a lot of looking at 
this yet, so I'll play with it some more later.

Thanks.

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