[Technic] linux help

[Scott Mayo]

Ricky Nance wrote:
> The way I ran it here at home was rm `ls | grep -v save` -fdr and it worked...
> the ls * shows the files under save1, save2, etc.
> 

When I did an 'ls | grep -v keep', then it did not list the actually 
directory, but it did list the files in it.  Since it listed the files, 
I figured that the above command would have kept the save directory, but 
would have deleted the files.  I'll try it since you said it worked.

I ended up doing a find and that worked also, so I guess I am happy.

find . -maxdepth 1 | grep -v keep | xargs rm -r

So it found everything on the main directory except for anything in the 
keep directory and then passed that to the rm which did a recursive 
delete on the directory that it was passed.



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