My goal was to leave only some video and audio files, independent of lower/uppercase:

GLOBIGNORE=*.[Mm][Pp][34]:*.[Mm]4[Aa]:*.[Ww][Aa][Vv]:*.3[Gg][Pp]:*.[Mm][Oo][Vv]:*.[Oo][Gg][Gg]:*.[Oo][Pp][Uu][Ss]:*.[Aa][Aa][Cc]
rm -v *
unset GLOBIGNORE

Hope this will help…

A directory is a file, your understanding of Linux and your guide are both jokes. If you can’t make a guide clear then you either don’t understand what you are talking about or you are bad at explaining things. Next time, don’t try what you are not willing to do properly and learn before you teach. Thank you.

I am trying to delete files from multiple directories through a shell script, in few directory files will come with an extension (.csv) and for few just an alphanumeric names.

Now the problem is, for the files with the extension I am using below line of command and which is working as expected.

# find /Collected_Directory/A/ -type f -name '*.csv' -delete;

but for the directory having files without extension I am using the “rm” command as below which asks permission to delete each file.

# rm /Collected_Directory/B/*

Note:

1. I can’t change the directory permission.
2. I don’t want to delete any subdirectories as well.

That’s dangerous!

Cheers.

@Mekkanizer

Oh sorry about losing your valuable files, but the heading/title is clear enough deleting of files with a particular extension. And the commands all show deleting of files e.g $ rm -v !("filename") not directory name. Next time don’t try what is out of the scope a guide expecting the same results.