I think, like me, you would have faced a lot of situations, where you wanted to delete all the files or directories in a location, leaving only the required files/directories. So, I have a directory …

Generally whoever uses Linux, would know about the find command. Find the man page <a href="http://amit.themafia.info/phpMan.php?parameter=find&mode=man" …

 This command is very powerfull when used with combination of filters and pipes and RE. I will give some example: […] find . -type f –» List all files find . -type f -exec rm {} …