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Delete all files in a folder that don\’t match a certain file extension

April 30, 2010April 27, 2010 Amit Agarwal bash, Fedora, Linux

$ rm !(*.foo|*.bar|*.baz)

Deletes all files in a folder that are NOT *.foo, *.bar or *.baz files. Edit the pattern inside the brackets as you like.

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