question on find and remove command - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

arunkumar_mca · #1 12-10-2007

Hi All,

I have wrote a command to find a and remove all *.apr files ina directory .
Now i got the request as reversed , They want to remove all files except *.apr in the direcory .

Is it possible to do that in a find comand else i have give an explicit find command to all *. files to remove.

Thanks,
Arun

gus2000 · #2 12-10-2007

Code:

# list files in the current dir with "apr" extension
find . -name "*.apr" -type f -maxdepth 1
# list files in the current dir WITHOUT "apr" extension
find . ! -name "*.apr" -type f -maxdepth 1

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