using rm *.rpm but keep some files?

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:56:20 +0000
Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to remove rpms from my local repo.
> But keep some named files.
> 
> Would this work:
> find /path/to/repo/*.rpm | grep -v "foo* bar*" | rm *.rpm

Simple solution:

mkdir tmp
mv /path/to/repo/foo* /path/to/repo/bar* tmp
find /path/to/repo/ -name *.rpm -delete
mv tmp/* /path/to/repo/

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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org