Re: Rmtree with exclude


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Re: Rmtree with exclude

by Arunbear (Prior)

on Dec 01, 2014 at 16:45 UTC ( [id://1108849]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in reply to Rmtree with exclude

rmtree doesn't handle such exclusions, however this task can also be achieved using some standard command line tools e.g.

+4:35% find . -wholename '*/cache/*'
./cache/01
./cache/01/aa
./cache/02
./cache/02/aa
./cache/_01
./cache/_01/aa
+4:35% find . -wholename '*/cache/*' ! -wholename '*_*'
./cache/01
./cache/01/aa
./cache/02
./cache/02/aa
+4:35% find . -wholename '*/cache/*' ! -wholename '*_*' | xargs rm -rf
+4:36% find . -wholename '*/cache/*'
./cache/_01
./cache/_01/aa
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See find, xargs