Re: simple command help

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Shelley <myphplist@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > What's the command to use if I want to remove all the directories and > files except 'a.gz' under a directory? There isn't a "command" in PHP to do this. You'd have to write a script to handle that processing. If you're looking for general Unix/Linux commands, you're in the wrong place, but here's one possible way to do it: sudo chattr +i /path/to/a.gz rm -fR /path sudo chattr -i /path/to/a.gz If you have sudo access (or straight root access, in which case you can su - to root and skip the 'sudo' part of the command), that will set the file attribute to immutable, which means no one - including root or the system itself - can modify or delete that file unless they have the CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE capability (such as root) and issue the 'chattr -i filename' command. -- </Dan> Daniel P. Brown Senior Unix Geek <? while(1) { $me = $mind--; sleep(86400); } ?>