Thread: How to recursively delete all files except certain types?

hello,
know may have been posted many times, i'm little bit lost bash , appreciated. have thousands of files in /music directory , subdirectories. how can recursively delete isn't , mp3 or flac file? i'd rid of isn't , mp3 or flac file
thank much!

dani

hi

use find.

code:

find . -type f  \( -not -iname "*.mp3" -not -iname "*.flac" \) -exec rm {} \;

test first though using echo.

code:

find . -type f  \( -not -iname "*.mp3" -not -iname "*.flac" \) -exec echo {} \;

kind regards

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