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# 1  
Old 07-28-2011
deletions of files
Hello,

In our server we have lots of files which like below

-rw-r----- 1 l828117 ACETPR 15043140 Jul 26 13:40 log.20110620_17
-rw-r----- 1 l828117 ACETPR 1529288 Jul 26 13:47 log.20110620_22
-rw-r----- 1 l828117 ACETPR 14964229 Jul 26 14:12 log.20110621_17
-rw-r----- 1 l828117 ACETPR 23051253 Jul 26 14:12 log.20110621_16
-rw-r----- 1 l828117 ACETPR 22737151 Jul 26 14:22 log.20110623_12
-rw-r----- 1 l828117 ACETPR 36870964 Jul 26 14:22 log.20110623_11
-rw-r----- 1 l828117 ACETPR 45527565 Jul 26 15:42 log.20110624_09
-rw-r----- 1 l828117 ACETPR 4502054 Jul 26 15:48 log.20110624_09.gz

from the above case i have to delete all the files except the file which zipped

Please help me on this.


Regards
Thelak
# 2  
Old 07-28-2011
Try:
Code:
find . -type f ! -name "*.gz" -exec rm -f {} \;

# 3  
Old 07-28-2011
Hi,
Thats great

But in the case if i have files like below
-rw-r----- 1 l828117 ACETPR 15043140 Jul 26 13:40 log.20110620_17
-rw-r----- 1 l828117 ACETPR 1529288 Jul 26 13:47 log.20110620_22
-rw-r----- 1 l828117 ACETPR 14964229 Jul 26 14:12 log.20110621_17
-rw-r----- 1 l828117 ACETPR 23051253 Jul 26 14:12 log.20110621_16
-rw-r----- 1 l828117 ACETPR 22737151 Jul 26 14:22 log.20110623_12
-rw-r----- 1 l828117 ACETPR 36870964 Jul 26 14:22 log.20110623_11
-rw-r----- 1 l828117 ACETPR 45527565 Jul 26 15:42 log.20110624_09
and i have to delete all files except files ( log.20110624_09,log.20110623_11) in this case
what shud be the case

Pls

regards
Thelak
# 4  
Old 07-28-2011
Code:
find . -type f ! -name "log.20110624_09" ! -name "log.20110623_11" -exec rm -f {} \;

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