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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove directory with exceptions Post 302376157 by rdcwayx on Monday 30th of November 2009 06:58:05 PM
Old 11-30-2009
What's the meaning to put a * in your find script?

your request can be combined into one command:

Code:
find . ! -name "*.SYNC" -type f -exec echo rm -rf {} \;

if you review the output, and it is fine, then run below command to delete files.

Code:
find . ! -name "*.SYNC" -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;

 

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sync

SYNC(1) 							   User Commands							   SYNC(1)

NAME

       sync - Synchronize cached writes to persistent storage

SYNOPSIS

       sync [OPTION] [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Synchronize cached writes to persistent storage

       If one or more files are specified, sync only them, or their containing file systems.

       -d, --data
	      sync only file data, no unneeded metadata

       -f, --file-system
	      sync the file systems that contain the files

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

BUGS

       Persistence guarantees vary per system.	See the system calls below for more details.

AUTHOR

       Written by Jim Meyering and Giuseppe Scrivano.

REPORTING BUGS

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       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       fdatasync(2), fsync(2), sync(2), syncfs(2)

       Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sync>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sync invocation'

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