How to remove files starting with a particular letter [closed]

Question

I want to rm all files in a directory not starting with the letter I or N - what is the easiest way to do it in bash?

Answer 1

You can do the following:

rm [^IN]*

The [^IN] is a pattern that matches any character except I or N - this syntax is described in the Pattern Matching section of the bash manual.

Answer 2

Another way:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "[^NI]*" -delete

Obviously, this option is worse ;)