如何在Linux中扫描特定的存储库/文件夹并删除生成的所有其他内容

Question

In my software build process , I am generating specific files inside 2 specific folder. These two specific folders exist inside a repo (eg x/y/folder1 & x/y/folder2). Now after my build process is finished I see some files also generated inside 'x/y' folder (eg x/y/file1 & x/y/file2 &..). These files are irrelevant. How can I scan my folder after build process is finished and remove everything (all files eg x/y/file1 & x/y/file2 &..) except x/y/folder1 & x/y/folder2. I would like to include this check point in my build script itself (after build process is finished) to first scan for the relevant folder (eg x/y) and remove everything except x/y/folder1 & x/y/folder2 to give a cleaner result.

I am using : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.11

Answer 1

find . -type f ! -path "./folder1/ " ! -path "./folder2/ " | xargs rm -f

or this id you would like to remove files and folders and just keep the ones you want

find . ! -path "./folder1/" ! -path "./folder2/" -exec rm -rf {} \\;