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done some homework on this--
after i remove up to and including the ) i want to take newfile.txt and use that list to remove the files from a file in my the directory pwd
i have a input.txt file
cat input,txt
1)mary.jpg
12)john.jpg
100)frankkfkdf .jpg
i want to remove the characters in the beginning of the line example only up and including the )
some thing like cut -c (2-35 ) < input.txt--i assume it would return> newfile.txt
i don't know the length of the file name but it is less than 35 characters and of different lengths

newfile.txt

cat newfile,txt
ry,jpg
hn.jpg
ankkfkdf.jpg

then xargs rm < newfile.txt
here goes my example and can it be done like this
cut -c (2-35) <inputfile.txt > newfile.txt
then
xargs rm <newfile.txt--here i know is where the problem is for me
the directory or should i say file is called all_images
cat all_images
dfdfdf.jpg
dfd.jpg
is this the code

xargs all_images rm < newfile.txt

i hope this is clear
take a list of file names and remove up to and include the )
take this list of file names and delete these files from another file all_images

i really appreciate all your help
i know there are other ways to do this with spreadsheets or use sed ( really unfamilar with it but doing homework)
but unix you know is really KooL and i love working with it
peter

Hi,

It's difficult for me to understand your problem. Let me explain it to check if I'm correct:

First of all you want to read file names of 'input.txt' without all characters until the first ')'.

The second part is less clear for me, for each file read of 'input.txt, go to '~/all_images/' and remove them?, or all_images is a plain text file and you want modify that file to remove entries also found in 'input.txt??

Thanks,

Regards,
Birei