Remove files that don't end on “.py” using rm [closed]

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Remove all files but one with rm

This is a very simple question and i dont know whether a solution exists or not.

I have some files in a directory, assume i have .py and some other extension files. now i would like to remove all files except those that end in .py files. How could i do that with the rm command?

That is i want something like

!(rm *.py) 

Is it possible?

Answer 1

shopt -s extglob
rm !(*.py)

You enable the extglob variable. This gives you some extra pattern matching features, particularly negation.

You can disable it again with shopt -u extglob.

Answer 2

Assuming you're using Bash:

shopt -s extglob
mv !(*.py) some_dir

Answer 3

ls | grep -v ".py$" | xargs rm

Answer 4

Easy to remember is find:

find -not -name "*.py" -delete 

It will delete files in subdirs too, compared to the larsmas solution, but you can prevent that with the -maxdepth parameter.

Not every find implementation might support the delete option. Gnu find does since version 4.2.3.