mass file delete command

[Cheetah]

I am using CentOS 5.3

I am having one folder which contain nearly 1500 files. there are files with txt,gif,rar,jpg extensions. I want to keep rar files and delete all other files.

some pls give me shell command to do that

 

[EvilGenius]

Do this:

$ mkdir allrar ; mv *.rar allrar/; rm *.*

It makes a new directory and moves all .rar files in it. and removes all files in the parent directory

 

[Cheetah]

i dont want to create new folder. what i look for is a for loop command which searchs for all files except those rar and deletes

 

[EvilGenius]

Its the same thing.

 

[kiss of death]

yep evilgenius is correct

 

[Cheetah]

i dont want to create a new folder like he mentioned " allrar"

the command must just search for all files except rar and delete files. i.e, it wont do any action on rar files like move or copy

 

[ChosenOne]

Try
rm *.txt

 

[Danny.M]

find -type f -name '*.txt' -exec rm -rf {} \;

repeat for other extensions

 

[Cheetah]

ChosenOne it just remove txt files only

 

[Cheetah]

Danny.M i know the command u specified . but want to know the command that i asked .

 

[EvilGenius]

you can always move the files from allrar folder back.

you don't know the first thing about linux. and i would prefer you go with easy stuff.

 

[Cheetah]

evilgenius , i know there is such command. i saw it previously some were, but i didn't remember where is was found. if u dont know abt that no problem leave it. i hope someone will find and replay here

 

[Sp32]

all you have to do is evilgeniuses command then move the files back...

Surely this isn't too hard?

 

[Tango]

Use sftp and sort by type, mass select and delete them

 

[Cheetah]

finaly i found it my self

rm -f $(ls * | grep -v .rar)