Re: which is the best way to find some files

[lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>]

On Monday 26,December,2011 01:13 AM, tony baldwin wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: lina
> > Sent: 12/25/11 12:04 PM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: which is the best way to find some files
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have some files like
> >
> > a_1.txt a_2.txt
> > a_1.doc a_2.doc
> > a_1.xxx a_2.xxx
> >
> > I only want to keep a_*.xxx
> >
> > but delete all other a_*.doc or .txt and more
> >
> > rm a_*.[^{xxx}] not work,
> >
> > Thanks for suggestions,
> >
> > Best regards,
> maybe try
>
> rm !(*.xxx)
Cool. work on my laptop,

but not on cluster:
$ ls !(*.gro)
-bash: !: event not found

Thanks,
> ./tony
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