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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers how to remove all except one file? Post 302162525 by radoulov on Tuesday 29th of January 2008 08:15:13 AM
Old 01-29-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by praveen_b744
How can I remove all files and folders in a directory except one perticular file?

Suppose in a folder we have files f1,f2,f3.In this I want to delete all files except f1.
[...]
[ksh]

Code:
rm !(f1)

[zsh]

Code:
rm ^f1

[bash]

Code:
shopt -s extglob
rm !(f1)

 

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