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From: Abbas Chunawala <abbas.chunawala <at> slscorp.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Request fror a feature rather
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:09:15 +0530

Hi,
Greetings.

There should also be a feature in rm which removes all files except the 
mentioned files.
What do you think ?

Thanks
Regards
Abbas Chunawala
(System Level Solutions (I) Pvt. Ltd. )

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: abbas.chunawala <at> slscorp.com
Cc: 15259 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15259: Request fror a feature rather
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:43:58 -0600

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On 09/03/2013 12:39 AM, Abbas Chunawala wrote:
> Hi,
> Greetings.
> 
> There should also be a feature in rm which removes all files except the
> mentioned files.
> What do you think ?

I think it is probably a case of feature bloat, as you can already
achieve the same using existing standard tools; for example:

find dir -name filetokeep -o -exec rm {} +

which will remove all files in a hierarchy except those excluded by the
left side of the -o predicate (in this case, preserving the file named
"filetokeep").

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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