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Ashu007
Ashu007

Reputation: 19

Bash : Remove all directories except one

I have folder structure like below

├── tmp
   └── Dir1
        |__Dir2
        |__Dir3
        |__Dir4

My current working directory is different which is /home/users/aaa from here I want to delete everything inside Dir1 except directory Dir2

I have one working solution which is 

abc=Dir2
shopt -s extglob             
    `rm -r /tmp/Dir1/!($abc)/`

But somehow this solution is not acceptable by team

do you have any other solution for deleting directories except one .

below is my actual code 

current_date=`date +"%Y_%m_%d"

#remove all containt of folder /tmp/metdata if they are older

shopt -s extglob             
`rm -r /tmp/metdata/!($current_date)/`

above solution is working but not acceptable by team:(

removing everything inside "/tmp/metdata/" except folder have name having value current_date

actually the issue is if there in no folder inside /tmp/metdata/ it shows below message each time ,I don't want to display this message 

rm: cannot remove ‘/tmp/metdata/!(2020_05_15)/’: No such file or directory

can we check any condition before this

any help appreciated

please help

Upvotes: 0

Views: 508

Answers (1)

JGK
JGK

Reputation: 4178

find /tmp/Dir1 -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 ! -name Dir2 -exec rm -rf {} +

current_date=$(date +"%Y_%m_%d")
find /tmp/Dir1 -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 ! -name "${current_date}" -exec rm -rf {} +

Upvotes: 1

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