My folder structure looks like that:
./build
./module/build
./source
All I want to keep is ./build and it's content.
The command find . \! -path ./build -delete does not delete ./build, but all of it's content.
How to avoid that?
Try:
find . \! \( -wholename "./build/*" -o -wholename ./build \) -delete
If you run:
rm -rf /tmp/tmp2
mkdir /tmp/tmp2
cd /tmp/tmp2
mkdir -p build module/build source
touch .hidden build/abc build/abc2 source/def module/build/ghi
find . \! \( -wholename "./build/*" -o -wholename ./build \) -delete
find .
your output will be:
./build
./build/abc
This is much safer than trying to parse the output of ls, where you have to take care of file or directory names with spaces or even worse with newlines embedded, find handles those correctly.
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