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  find . -maxdepth 1 ! -name some_file_name -exec rm -fr {} \;

  It is to delete all the files except one file named in the command.

  It works fine, but I always see "rm:can not remove '.' or '..' "
error message.

  Then I run this command,

  find . -maxdepth 1 ! -name some_file_name

  I do see that the first file is ".", I wonder if ther is a way not to
list "."?

Thanks.

Quote:> Hi,
>  I have this command in my script,

>  find . -maxdepth 1 ! -name some_file_name -exec rm -fr {} \;

>  It is to delete all the files except one file named in the command.

Regards
Dimitre

avoids . (and the unportable expression -maxdepth as well)

Quote:> find ! . -name . -prune  ! -name some[...]

Quote:>> find ! . -name .
> find . ! . -name [...]

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