On 2/3/2016 12:37 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > I'm attempting to delete some directories and I want to be able to exclude > a directory called 'logs' from being deleted. Since you can't have a file and a directory named "logs" in the same directory at the same time (that I know of), you could turn on bash's extended globbing. $ shopt -s extglob $ rm -rf !(logs) That will only preserve the top-level entity named logs, though. If there's a "logs" in a subdirectory, it'll get deleted. -- -Chris _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: delete directories with find and exclude other directories
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