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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can I skip files when running rm command Post 302804145 by hanson44 on Wednesday 8th of May 2013 10:34:02 PM
Old 05-08-2013
Here is one possible way:
Code:
ls | grep -v dasd_91197.trc | xargs rm

If more than one file to retain:
Code:
ls | grep -v -e dasd_91197.trc -e someother.trc | xargs rm

---------- Post updated at 04:49 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:36 AM ----------

For just the *.trc extension files:
Code:
ls | grep "\.trc$" | grep -v dasd_91197.trc | xargs rm

Or probably better to use find to generate the list of files:
Code:
find . -type f -name "*.trc" | grep -v dasd_91197.trc | xargs rm

---------- Post updated at 09:34 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:49 AM ----------

One other thing came to me, and I think important. find command of course also finds files in subdirectories (might cause a big problem, maybe remove files you had not intended to remove). So you might need to use find -maxdepth option, as follows:
Code:
$ find . -name "*.sh" -print
./xxx/test.sh
./test.sh
./test-2.sh

Code:
$ find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.sh" -print
./test.sh
./test-2.sh

So: find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.trc" | grep -v dasd_91197.trc | xargs rm
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tau2vtf

TAU2VTF(1)							       Tools								TAU2VTF(1)

NAME

       tau2vtf - convert TAU tracefiles to vampir tracefiles

SYNOPSIS

       tau2vtf [-nomessage] [-v] [[-a] [-fa]] {tau_tracefile} {tau_eventfile} {vtf_tracefile}

DESCRIPTION

       This program is generated when TAU is configured with the -vtf=<vtf_dir> option.

       The tau2vtf trace converter takes a single tau_tracefile (*.trc) and tau_eventfile (*.edf) and produces a corresponding vtf_tracefile
       (*.vtf). The input files and output file must be specified in that order. Multi-file TAU traces must be merged before conversion.

       The default output file format is VTF3 binary. If the output filename is given as the .vpt.gz type, rather than .vpt, the output file will
       be gzipped. There are two additional output format options. The command line argument '-a' produces the vtf file output in ASCII VTF3
       format. The command line argument '-fa' produces the vtf file output in the FAST ASCII VTF3 format. Note that these arguments are mutually
       exclusive.

OPTIONS

       -nomessage Suppresses printing of message information in the trace.

       -v Verbose mode sends trace event descriptions to the standard output as they are converted.

       -a Print the vtf file output in the human-readable VTF3 ASCII format

       -fa Print the vtf file in the simplified human-readable FAST ASCII VTF3 format

EXAMPLES

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

       tau2vtf merged.trc tau.edf app.vpt

       The following will convert merged.trc and tau.edf to a gzipped FAST ASCII vampir tracefile app.vpt.gz, with message events omitted:

       tau2vtf merged.trc tau.edf app.vpt.gz -nomessage -fa

SEE ALSO

       vtf2profile(1), tau2profile(1), tau_merge(1), tau_convert(1)

								    12/22/2005								TAU2VTF(1)
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