Deleting files
 

Hi,

I apologise for the simple question (but the title does say where newbies come for help!)

I want to delete all the contents in a folder bar one called index.html however, they are all write protected so it asks me to confirm each one

Is there a way to force it to delete them?

I need to make a cron script to clean out a directory but the files inside are read only basically

Thanks in advance

The manpage (man rm) says:

-f, --force
ignore nonexistent files, never prompt

how about telling it to remove all the files in the directory apart from index.html? (without removing the directory itself, or those within)

Thanks

Can't think of something how to do that right now, except for:
(this is an ugly workaround, but it'll work)
where foo is the name of the directory you want to have everything cleaned except index.html.
[edit: typo in code]

Managed to find an alternative solution:

remove the directory with everything in it, readd it, chmod the new one, then untar a file containing the index.html in the appropriate directories

It works ok so that should do :)