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From: lsloan@ais.org (Lance Sloan)
Subject: The find not-operator
Message-ID: <BrG8o9.Eq6@ais.org>
Organization: UMCC
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1992 21:21:43 GMT
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I have several files in my home directory called testfile, I want to
delete all of them except for the one located in my bin subdirectory. As a
test, I tried to print the ones to be deleted first, but I'm having
problems using find's not-operator. Her's what I tried:
find . -name 'testfile' -a \!-name 'bin/testfile' -print
This causes various error messages depending on the location of "!".
My manual doesn't give an example of using "!". Maybe I'm doing the whole
thing wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Lance Sloan
lsloan@umcc.ais.org