Using Find with Regular Expressions.

Can somebody help me form a expression with Find to locate -name, but
exclude -name.

For example, I have a directory that I would like to clean out ever so
ofter, but don't want to touch 3 directories located in the same
directory.

Thanks,

--TJ

techjohnny@gmail.com wrote:

> Can somebody help me form a expression with Find to locate -name, but
> exclude -name.

This is off-topic in a PHP newsgroup. Personally, I'd just pipe the output
from "find" through "grep -v".

> For example, I have a directory that I would like to clean out ever so
> ofter, but don't want to touch 3 directories located in the same
> directory.

Why not just cd to the directory and "rm -f *"? Without the "-r", "rm"
doesn't recurse into directories.

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On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:43:43 +0000, Toby A Inkster wrote:

> techjohnny@gmail.com wrote:

[putolin]

>
>> For example, I have a directory that I would like to clean out ever so
>> ofter, but don't want to touch 3 directories located in the same
>> directory.
>
> Why not just cd to the directory and "rm -f *"? Without the "-r", "rm"
> doesn't recurse into directories.

That would of course be too easy.

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Tayo'y Mga Pinoy

On Mar 7, 2:51 pm, Baho Utot <baho-u...@invalid.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:43:43 +0000, Toby A Inkster wrote:
> > techjoh...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> [putolin]
>
>
>
> >> For example, I have a directory that I would like to clean out ever so
> >> ofter, but don't want to touch 3 directories located in the same
> >> directory.
>
> > Why not just cd to the directory and "rm -f *"? Without the "-r", "rm"
> > doesn't recurse into directories.
>
> That would of course be too easy.
>
> --
> Tayo'y Mga Pinoy

Let's say there are 50 files and 50 directories, but I only want to
keep 3 or 4 directory and 1 file, now I can do rm -rf to each file and
directory, but I'm looking for a way to more automate this process.

I think applying the +i directory attribute is a solution that works
so far.

Thanks,

--TJ

On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:16:20 -0800, techjohnny@gmail.com wrote:

> On Mar 7, 2:51 pm, Baho Utot <baho-u...@invalid.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:43:43 +0000, Toby A Inkster wrote:
>> > techjoh...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> [putolin]
>>
>>
>>
>> >> For example, I have a directory that I would like to clean out ever
>> >> so ofter, but don't want to touch 3 directories located in the same
>> >> directory.
>>
>> > Why not just cd to the directory and "rm -f *"? Without the "-r",
>> > "rm" doesn't recurse into directories.
>>
>> That would of course be too easy.
>>
>> --
>> Tayo'y Mga Pinoy
>
> Let's say there are 50 files and 50 directories, but I only want to keep
> 3 or 4 directory and 1 file, now I can do rm -rf to each file and
> directory, but I'm looking for a way to more automate this process.
>
> I think applying the +i directory attribute is a solution that works so
> far.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --TJ

*nix or winwoes?

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On Mar 8, 5:34 am, Baho Utot <baho-u...@invalid.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:16:20 -0800, techjoh...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Mar 7, 2:51 pm, Baho Utot <baho-u...@invalid.org> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:43:43 +0000, Toby A Inkster wrote:
> >> > techjoh...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> >> [putolin]
>
> >> >> For example, I have a directory that I would like to clean out ever
> >> >> so ofter, but don't want to touch 3 directories located in the same
> >> >> directory.
>
> >> > Why not just cd to the directory and "rm -f *"? Without the "-r",
> >> > "rm" doesn't recurse into directories.
>
> >> That would of course be too easy.
>
> >> --
> >> Tayo'y Mga Pinoy
>
> > Let's say there are 50 files and 50 directories, but I only want to keep
> > 3 or 4 directory and 1 file, now I can do rm -rf to each file and
> > directory, but I'm looking for a way to more automate this process.
>
> > I think applying the +i directory attribute is a solution that works so
> > far.
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > --TJ
>
> *nix or winwoes?
>
> --
> Tayo'y Mga Pinoy

*nix