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remove except ...
hello,
Sometimes I need to remove all the files except one or more.I mean, there are 90 files and I want to remove 88 of them. how can i do that?is it possible to tell the "rm" command not to remove specified files? 
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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 . Code:
ls | grep -v file_to_keep | xargs rm '{}'
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If it's only one or two files that you want to keep, then the above answers are good.
But if it's a lot of files that are scattered among the list, then do an interactive rm: rm -i * The system will ask you if you want to delete each file.
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