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R. Naired
R. Naired

Reputation: 155

How to remove files without certain extension?

How to remove all files without the .txt and .exe extensions recursively in the current working directory? I need a one-liner.

I tried:

find . ! -name "*.txt" "*.exe" -exec rm -r {} \
find -type f -regextype posix-extended -iregex '.*\.(txt|exe)$'

Upvotes: 12

Views: 8647

Answers (3)

Mudit Goyal
Mudit Goyal

Reputation: 23

Try the following:

rm -f $(find . -type f ! \( -name "*.txt" -o -name "*.exe" \))

This will first recursively find all files that do not end with .txt or .exe extensions, and then delete all of these files.

Upvotes: 0

Benjamin W.
Benjamin W.

Reputation: 52112

If you have GNU find with the -delete action:

find . -type f ! \( -name '*.txt' -o -name '*.exe' \) -delete

And if not:

find . -type f ! \( -name '*.txt' -o -name '*.exe' \) -exec rm -f {} +

using -exec ... {} + to execute rm as few times as possible, with the arguments chained.

Upvotes: 4

sureshkumar
sureshkumar

Reputation: 599

Try this. 

find . -type f ! -name "*.exe" ! -name "*.txt" -exec rm {} \;

The above command will remove all the files other than the .exe and .txt extension files in the current directory and sub directory recursively.

Upvotes: 21

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