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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Not to remove Files based on property value Post 303002618 by RudiC on Tuesday 29th of August 2017 08:08:21 AM
Old 08-29-2017
Did you consider the "extended globbing" feature in recent bashes? man bash:
Quote:
If the extglob shell option is enabled using the shopt builtin, several extended pattern matching operators are recognized.
You could build the composite pattern from your property file, and then remove all files except the given ones.
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