mass file delete command

[vgnheart]

I am using CentOS 5.3

I am having one folder which contain nearly 1500 files. there are files with txt,gif,rar,jpg extensions. I want to keep rar files and delete all other files.

some pls give me shell command to do that

vgnheart Reviewed by vgnheart on 21st Sep 2009. mass file delete command I am using CentOS 5.3 I am having one folder which contain nearly 1500 files. there are files with txt,gif,rar,jpg extensions. I want to keep rar files and delete all other files. some pls give me shell command to do that Rating: 5

[EvilGenius]

Do this:

$ mkdir allrar ; mv *.rar allrar/; rm *.*

It makes a new directory and moves all .rar files in it. and removes all files in the parent directory

[vgnheart]

i dont want to create new folder. what i look for is a for loop command which searchs for all files except those rar and deletes

[EvilGenius]

Its the same thing.

[kiss of death]

yep evilgenius is correct

[vgnheart]

i dont want to create a new folder like he mentioned " allrar"

the command must just search for all files except rar and delete files. i.e, it wont do any action on rar files like move or copy

[ChosenOne]

Try
rm *.txt

[Danny.M]

find -type f -name '*.txt' -exec rm -rf {} \;

repeat for other extensions

[vgnheart]

ChosenOne it just remove txt files only

[vgnheart]

Danny.M i know the command u specified . but want to know the command that i asked .