March 27, 2017
March 22, 2017
How to exclude a specific files or directory from rm command in linux?
Behind Story:
Sometimes we have a list of files in a directory, and want to bulk remove the unnecessary files from those dirs and leave that specific may important.References:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17184956/how-exclude-files-folders-for-removeNotes:
From references I try two option to solve this problem:1. By using find, grep, and xargs rm commands
find . -type 'f' | grep -v "NameToExclude" | xargs rm find
find . -type 'd' | grep -v "NameToExclude" | xargs rmdir
2. By using rm, and ls --ignore commands
rm -fr $(ls -1 --ignore=nameToExclude)
rm -fr $(ls -1 --ignore={"nameToExclude1","nameToExclude2"})
and for me, option no.2 is better and easier