There are plenty of situations where the use of a * is virtually inevitable - e.g. rm -rf * in a folder that holds thousands of subfolders and files.
But what if you want to exclude just one or two files or folders from the rm command? I've googled my way around and only found quite complicated solutions like find . -depth -not ( -name 'one' -o -name 'two' as stated here.
-o -name 'three' ) -exec rm {} ;
Is there a possibility to do this in an easier way - without that detour to find?
E.g. rm -rf --exclude='one' --exclude='two' --exclude='three' * like in rsync or just rm -rf -e 'one','two','three' *?
Maybe even a general possibility to exclude things from * (so other commands like cp, mv, ... don't have to implement their own)? Something like *{'one','two','three'} or so?
