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

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