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Old 11-30-2009
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Hi,
I want to remove a directory recursively except the inside directories calles .SYNC (designsync dirs) I am looking for something like:

\rm -rf < find . * | grep -v .SYNC

The find works ok but I do not know how to redirect it.

Please help.

Regards,
Ziv
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Old 11-30-2009
I suggest you should read the rules. Double posting is not permitted.

You have posted the same question in three forums. Not good.

Continue here:

https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...xceptions.html
 
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