如何排除一些文件

Question

I have files default.attr, default.ba. default.cir .. I want to remove all default.* files except default.cir in linux.

Answer 1

Use ! in find :

find . -name "default.*" -a \! -name "default.cir" -print

After checking that this works as expected, you can replace -print with -delete .

Answer 2

The simplest and probably safest way is to just move the files you don't want to delete to a different directory, perform your operations, and move the files back:

TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
mv default.cir $TMPDIR/
rm default.*
mv $TMPDIR/* .
rmdir $TMPDIR

This way you don't have to create any complex command and it will work with an arbitrary number of files.