[Gllug] quick question - exclusive rm -r

[Luis M. Cruz]

On 11/27/06, salsaman <salsaman at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Is it possible to say "delete all subdirectories of ., _except_ those
> containing the file foo" in one line of shell script ? If so, how ?

  Hi,

  something like this should work:

for A in `find -type d`; do echo `find -type f -name foo` | grep -q $A
|| rm -fr $A ; done

  Anyway, use it with care. Make a copy of your files before trying it.

  Cheers!

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