Remove everything except? [closed]

Question

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Remove all files but one with rm

In unix, to remove zip files in a directory one can simply type

rm *.zip

How can one remove everything except zip files?

Answer 1

rm !(*.zip)

This appears to work. The ! represents "not".

extglob needs to be enabled in the shell behavior settings for this to work. It is probably already enabled... but if not, enable it with:

shopt -s extglob

And after answering this... indeed Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams you are correct. It is pretty much duplicate.

Answer 2

Try creating a list then removing the file from the list.

Ex.

ls $yourDir | grep -v .zip > deleteThis.list

the call

xargs rm < deleteThis.list