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3 Ways to Delete All Files in a Directory Except One or Few Files with Extensions

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Aaron Kili
Oct 25, 2016

Sometimes you get into a situation where you need to delete all files in a directory or simply cleanup a directory by removing all files except files of a given type (ending with a particular extension). In this article, we will show you how to delete files in a directory except certain file extensions or types using rm, find and globignore commands.
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Aaron Kili

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