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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:38:25AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:

> >>>and deleted every dir except i386?
> >>
> >>rm -r a* rm -r m* rm -r p* rm -r s* and whatever else is not
> >>i386
>
> To do this using the up arrow  to repeat previous
> lines and changing one letter took me 8 keystrokes, plus
> up arrow left arrow backspace character (three times) = 14
> characters, plus a few more for the last few directories, maybe
> 20 characters. It was probably quicker than typing out your
> very elegant instructions to delete all but the i386 directory.

Ouch! :-O

However, the same little find script could be used in all of
the _other_ directories, with minor modifications.

And if there were a 100 subdirs...

Find can be pretty useful. I use it instead of locate on my
debian OS, a script aliased to "loc". Saves a lot space.

It's hard to find the find docs because the string "find" gets
a staggering number of hits, no matter how good you are at
composing search strings.

(like "file")

But I have the manual (non-GNU) and a tutorial if anyone is interested.

[delete]

Lee