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Old 05-15-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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No. You'd have to write a loop. Consider:
Code:
cp file_to_keep /tmp/ && rm -f * && cp /tmp/file_to_keep .
Or something along these lines:
Code:
ls | grep -v file_to_keep | xargs rm '{}'