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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove all files except the subdirectory(without pattern) in a directory Post 302845329 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 21st of August 2013 09:17:17 AM
Old 08-21-2013
I've had problems with the suggested rm -r because it will follow symbolic links out to other filesystems. Imagine what fun we had when we ran that from /opt/BOB/new only to find that there was a link to /usr/lib contained within it. Yes, it went off an cleared that too. Good thing we didn't have a link to /dev, /usr or /.

If you have few enough files, you could:-
Code:
for object in *
do
   if [ -f $object ]
   then
      rm $object
   fi
done

This tests that the item is a file. It will not traverse down directories though. Do you want to do that too, or does the above suffice?

If you have lots of files, then you may have to write a stronger loop. We can get to that if you need it.



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Liverpool/Blackburn
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cc(1B)						     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						    cc(1B)

NAME

       cc - C compiler

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/cc [options]

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/ucb/cc  is the interface to the BSD Compatibility Package C compiler. It is a script that looks for the link /usr/ccs/bin/ucbcc to the
       C compiler. The /usr/ccs/bin/ucbcc link is available only with the SPROcc package, whose default location is /opt/SUNWspro. The /usr/ucb/cc
       interface  is  identical  to  /usr/ccs/bin/ucbcc, except that BSD headers are used and BSD  libraries are linked before base libraries. The
       /opt/SUNWspro/man/man1/acc.1 man page is available only with the SPROcc package.

OPTIONS

       The /usr/ucb/cc interface accepts the same options as /usr/ccs/bin/ucbcc, with the following exceptions:

       -Idir	    Search dir for included files whose names do not begin with a slash (/) prior to searching the usual directories. The directo-
		    ries  for  multiple  -I options are searched in the order specified. The preprocessor first searches for #include files in the
		    directory containing sourcefile, and then in directories named with -I options (if any), then /usr/ucbinclude, and finally, in
		    /usr/include.

       -Ldir	    Add  dir to the list of directories searched for libraries by /usr/ccs/bin/ucbcc. This option is passed to /usr/ccs/bin/ld and
		    /usr/lib. Directories specified with this option are searched before /usr/ucblib and /usr/lib.

       -Y P, dir    Change the default directory used for finding libraries.

EXIT STATUS

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       0     Successful compilation or link edit.

       >0    An error occurred.

FILES

       /usr/ccs/bin/ld	     link editor

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       /usr/ucblib/libucb    BSD Compatibility C library

       /usr/lib/libsocket    library containing socket routines

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       /usr/lib/libaio	     library containing asynchronous I/O routines

ATTRIBUTES

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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ld(1), a.out(4), attributes(5)

NOTES

       The -Y P, dir option may have unexpected results and should not be used.

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