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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting File names with spaces? Is it possible? Post 302096407 by Eric_2005 on Wednesday 15th of November 2006 11:30:56 AM
Old 11-15-2006
Data

That really worked.

My job will be complete when i delete the files under DOCS folder, those filenames which i am retreiving from the TXT file. Below script does not seems to work to delete. Please advice.

Script
=====

cd ~/docs/

while IFS="\n" read line
do
echo "$line"
rm $line
done < ~/temp/employee.txt
 

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asadmin-delete-threadpool, delete-threadpool - removes the named threadpool SYNOPSIS
delete-threadpool --user admin_user [--password admin_password] [--host localhost] [--port 4848] [--secure|-s] [--passwordfile filename] [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--interactive=true] threadpool_id Removes the threadpool with the named ID. This command is supported in remote mode only. OPTIONS
--user authorized domain application server administrative username. --password password to administer the domain application server. --host machine name where the domain application server is running. --port port number of the domain application server listening for administration requests. --secure if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the domain application server. --passwordfile file containing the domain application server password. --terse indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding human-friendly sentences and favoring well- formatted data for consumption by a script. Default is false. --echo setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output. Default is false. --interactive if set to true (default), only the required password options are prompted. OPERANDS
threadpool_id an ID for the work queue; for example, thread-pool-1, thread-pool-2, etc. Example 1: Using delete-threadpool asadmin> delete-threadpool --user admin1 --password adminadmin1 threadpool-1 Command delete-threadpool executed successfully EXIT STATUS
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