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Delete files and directory from an ls excluding specific pattern
Author: Katrame
Visits: 393
Date: 05.02.2008
Author: Katrame
Visits: 393
Date: 05.02.2008
# ls -lah |grep codelime |grep -v 2008-02-05|tr -s ' '|cut -f 8 -d ' '|xargs rm -rf
Explain:
- ls -lah
list files/dir
- |grep codelime
catch specific pattern "codelime"
- |grep -v 2008-02-05
exclude specific pattern "2008-02-05"
- |tr -s ' '
uniform space from columns to a single space
- | cut -f 8 -d ' '
extract a single column (in this case the number 8 that equal to filename/dirname)
- |xargs rm -rf
execute rm command to the out of the previous commands
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