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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can I skip files when running rm command Post 302804133 by John K on Wednesday 8th of May 2013 05:27:12 AM
Old 05-08-2013
Can I skip files when running rm command
Platform: Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.2

I have several files like below. I want to remove all files except one file

For example , I want to remove all the files below except
Code:
dasd_91197.trc

Code:
$ ls -alrt *.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8438784 May 7 21:30 dasd_91177.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8439296 May 7 21:30 dasd_91178.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8439296 May 7 21:30 dasd_91179.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8436736 May 7 21:30 dasd_91180.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8438784 May 7 21:30 dasd_91181.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8439296 May 7 21:30 dasd_91182.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8438784 May 7 21:30 dasd_91183.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8438272 May 7 21:30 dasd_91184.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8439296 May 7 21:30 dasd_91186.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8437760 May 7 21:30 dasd_91185.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8437248 May 7 21:31 dasd_91187.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8439808 May 7 21:31 dasd_91188.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8439296 May 7 21:31 dasd_91189.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8437760 May 7 21:31 dasd_91190.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8440832 May 7 21:31 dasd_91191.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8436224 May 7 21:31 dasd_91192.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8441856 May 7 21:31 dasd_91193.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8437248 May 7 21:31 dasd_91194.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8437248 May 7 21:31 dasd_91195.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8437248 May 7 21:31 dasd_91200.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8437248 May 7 21:31 dasd_91199.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8436736 May 7 21:31 dasd_91198.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8436736 May 7 21:31 dasd_91197.trc ---------------> Don't remove this file
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8436736 May 7 21:31 dasd_91196.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8439808 May 7 21:31 dasd_91202.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8436736 May 7 21:31 dasd_91201.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8441344 May 7 21:31 dasd_91203.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8441344 May 7 21:31 dasd_91204.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8438272 May 7 21:31 dasd_91205.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8441856 May 7 21:31 dasd_91206.trc
-rw-r----- 1 ecmdev wms  8437248 May 7 21:31 dasd_91207.trc

Sometimes I have deal with thousands of files and I might have keep one or two. In this case, I have to run individual rm commands for all the files I have to remove; hence looking for this solution
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

tau2profile

TAU2PROFILE(1)							       Tools							    TAU2PROFILE(1)

NAME

       tau2profile - convert TAU tracefiles to TAU profile files

SYNOPSIS

       tau2vprofile [-d directory] [-s snapshot_interval] {tau_tracefile} {tau_eventfile}

DESCRIPTION

       This program is generated when TAU is configured with the -TRACE option.

       The tau2profile converter takes a single tau_tracefile (*.trc) and tau_eventfile (*.edf) and produces a corresponding series of profile
       files. The input files must be specified in that order, with optinal parameters coming afterward. Multi-file TAU traces must be merged
       before conversion.

OPTIONS

       -d Output profile files to the specified 'directory' rather than the current directory.

       -s Output a profile snapshot showing the state of the profile data accumulated from the trace every 'snapshot_interval' time units. The
       snapshot profiles are placed sequentially in directories labled 'snapshot_n' where 'n' is an integer ranging from 0 to to the total number
       of snapshots -1.

EXAMPLES

       The program must be run with the tau trace and tau event files specified in the command line in that order. Any additional arguments
       follow. The following will produce a profile file array, from the TAU trace and event files merged.trc and tau.edf trace file:

       tau2profile merged.trc tau.edf

       The following will convert merged.trc and tau.edf to a series of profiles one directory higher. It will also produce a profile snapshot
       every 250,000 time units:

       tau2profile merged.trc tau.edf -d ./.. -s 250000

SEE ALSO

       vtf2profile(1), tau2vtf(1), tau2otf(1), tau_merge(1), tau_convert(1)

								    12/22/2005							    TAU2PROFILE(1)
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