Question

i have bunch of dirs , say **a, b, c0, d, Z , foo, ** and so on.

I want to remove all the directories except dirs foo, foo2, a and b

can anyone provide me the syntax to do this shell?

Thanks

UPDATE
I just want to say Thank you to all of you for your responses!

Answer 1

Probably the easiest way;

mkdir ../tempdir
mv foo foo2 a b ../tempdir
rm *
mv ../tempdir/* .
rmdir ../tempdir

Please note that this deletes also all files, not just directories.