Lars Eighner wrote:
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, t-u-t wrote:
hi, i don't know if this is a freak question, but i was looking
around to
see if this is possible, and what the convention would be.
if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many
others,
and i want to perform any said function like cp, mv, rm, etc.. , to all
other files except that one or two, is there a way to do that in a
single
command?
e.g
rm -r * {-except foo1 foo15}
In general this is not possible. . . .
Oh yes it is, it is very easy. I've done things like this in unix
environments for years. I also apply it to tar commands all the time.
All you have to do is this:
$ ls >rm.in
$ vi rm.in
. . . edit out all the files you don't want to erase . . .
$ rm `cat rm.in`
-Will
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