[Technic] linux help

[Scott Mayo]

Scott Mayo wrote:
> Scott Mayo wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Ok, it worked here also.  I guess that I should not assume when I see 
> certain things, but just try it. :)
> 

Ok, I need to wake up this morning.  I just realized what you said and 
what I did.  I was sticking the '*' in my ls command and was not paying 
attention to that. :)

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