Hi All,

Thanks in advance for reading and any posts...

I have to delete a lot of files (about 6 pages of a4 (ls -ltr)) but I have to keep some as well. I would normally do an rm * to get rid of them all, but thats not what I want to do. Is there anyway I could rm * but add in a list of files that I don't want to delete.

Thanks for reading and any posts,

Mark.

put a list of "keeper files" into goodfiles then

Thanks for the replay will try making a small shell script with it... thanks Mark...

When I run that I get the following error:

grep: illegal option -- f
Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
[2] + Done(2) ls -1 | grep -v -f goodfiles | \;while read filee

Any ideas????

Thanks again,

B14...aka... marky mark....

Check if your grep supports -v and -f options...

type at the command prompt

If you are on Sun Solaris box, some options are supported by

and some options are supported by

Give the entire path of grep...

See if it works!!

yeah it works but under solaris you need to use /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in order to get it to work....

...sorry for the slow response had a few other things that took priotry...

Thanks again,

B14... aka... marky mark

Come across a possibly simpiler way (un specified way), you can do the following if you want delete old files:

This essentially will allow you delete all files in a directory over a certain age, not sure if this is of interest to anyone but it will sort out my problem, I am guessing that you could do something similar with the above as well so that you can delete a pile of files