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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Removing files exclusively Post 66833 by phil1t on Thursday 17th of March 2005 08:00:14 AM
Old 03-17-2005
It will not remove the current directory so you can do the following;
find . -name '*Copy*' -prune -o -exec rm -r {} \; 2>/dev/null

Example;
# ls -lia
total 40
129053 drwxr-xr-x 5 root system 512 Mar 17 06:58 .
63492 drwxr-xr-x 9 pthompso staff 1536 Mar 16 19:16 ..
129054 drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 512 Mar 17 06:53 Copy
129109 -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Mar 17 06:55 Copyaaa
129106 -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Mar 17 06:57 Copyxxx
129108 -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Mar 17 06:54 aaaCopyaaa
133120 drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 512 Mar 17 06:58 cat
129111 drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 512 Mar 17 06:58 dog
129107 -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Mar 17 06:57 xxxCopy
129110 -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Mar 17 06:58 xxxCopyxxx
# find . -name '*Copy*' -prune -o -exec rm -r {} \; 2>/dev/null
# ls -lia
total 24
129053 drwxr-xr-x 3 root system 512 Mar 17 06:59 .
63492 drwxr-xr-x 9 pthompso staff 1536 Mar 16 19:16 ..
129054 drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 512 Mar 17 06:53 Copy
129109 -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Mar 17 06:55 Copyaaa
129106 -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Mar 17 06:57 Copyxxx
129108 -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Mar 17 06:54 aaaCopyaaa
129107 -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Mar 17 06:57 xxxCopy
129110 -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Mar 17 06:58 xxxCopyxxx
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1

dh_fixperms

DH_FIXPERMS(1)							     Debhelper							    DH_FIXPERMS(1)

NAME

       dh_fixperms - fix permissions of files in package build directories

SYNOPSIS

       dh_fixperms [debhelperoptions] [-Xitem]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_fixperms is a debhelper program that is responsible for setting the permissions of files and directories in package build directories to
       a sane state -- a state that complies with Debian policy.

       dh_fixperms makes all files in usr/share/doc in the package build directory (excluding files in the examples/ directory) be mode 644. It
       also changes the permissions of all man pages to mode 644. It removes group and other write permission from all files. It removes execute
       permissions from any libraries, headers, Perl modules, or desktop files that have it set. It makes all files in the standard bin and sbin
       directories, usr/games/ and etc/init.d executable (since v4). Finally, it removes the setuid and setgid bits from all files in the package.

       When the Rules-Requires-Root field has the (effective) value of binary-targets, dh_fixperms will also reset the ownership of all paths to
       "root:root".

OPTIONS

       -Xitem, --exclude item
	   Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from having their permissions changed. You may use this option multiple
	   times to build up a list of things to exclude.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

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