[Gllug] quick question - exclusive rm -r

[Progga]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 02:21:46AM +0100, salsaman 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 ?

The following works in my FreeBSD box under bash:

$ find ./ -type d -not -exec [ -e {}/foo ] \; -delete
find: -delete: ./: relative path potentially not safe

The error msg can be ignored.

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