Linux – Delete all sub-directories except one

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Suppose under the current directory, there are multiple sub-directories, and one is called A.

How to delete all sub-directories except A with Bash?

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Bash has extended globbing (first test, then remove the echo):

shopt -s extglob
echo rm -rf !(A)

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Bash – Deleting all folders older than a specified date, except some of them

This must be my find day.

find /yourpath -mmin +60 -type d -not \( -name dirname1 -o -name dirname2 \) -print0 | xargs -0 rm -r

will find and delete all directories older than 60 minutes (adapt accordingly) which are not named dirname1 or dirname2. You can extend this list with additional -o name dirname parts. Also, I would strongly recommend to replace the rm -r part with echo for testing.

Linux SCP – Can SCP Copy Directories Recursively?

Yup, use -r:

scp -rp sourcedirectory user@dest:/path

-r means recursive
-p preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original file.

Note: This creates the sourcedirectory inside /path thus the files will be in /path/sourcedirectory

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