On 2004-09-14 at 08:40:55, Austin Hastings wrote: > In particular, I wanted to remove "* but not Makefile" (since my > Makefile uses lwp-download to re-fetch the source code, etc.)
Well, you can, depending on your shell:
in ksh: rm !(Makefile)
in bash: ditto, but you have to turn on the "extglob" option first with
shopt -s extglob
in csh: think you're out of luck here.
Note that ksh/bash support multiple exclusions via alternation:
rm !(Makefile|configure|config.in)
-Mark
