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Now if you have a problem where you wanna delete a couple of folders in a directory it’s easy to do that in a one liner

$ rm -rf folder_1 folder_2 

but what if you want to delete all but those specific directories? Today my college showed me this amazing trick for finding everything but that

$ find . -maxdepth 1 ! -name folder_1 ! -name folder_2 

which lists all the other folders in that particular directory and then that can easily be piped to rm.

$ find . -maxdepth 1 ! -name folder_1 ! -name folder_2 | xargs rm -rf