delete some files

[kholikt]

I have lot of snmpcollect files that I wish to delete.

But I do not want to delete any files end with !

I have tried grep and all sort of thing but still can't figure out how to exclude file which end with ! sign

[Patrick Wallek]

Try something like this:

# find /dir -type f ! -name "*!" -print

Do the above first to make sure you only get the files you want. If you do then you can try the command line below to remove the files:

# find /dir -type f ! -name "*!" -exec rm {} \;

[T G Manikandan]

# for i in `ls|grep -v "!" /home1/temp`
> do
> rm -i $i
> done



Thanks

[V. V. Ravi Kumar_1]

hi,
#for i in `ls -l |grep -v "!$" |awk `{print $9}'`
do
rm -i $i
done

Regards