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12-02-2006

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Quote:

Originally Posted by System Shock

Let me get this straight.
You want to set a variable that will limit the number of files you can delete in the command line, ex:
if you set MAXFILES to 3, and you type something like

Code:

 delete file1 file2 file3 file4 file5

only file1 file2, and file3 will be deleted.

Is that what you are looking for?

Yeah. Something like that. Here is the code I have so far for the program. It kinda sorta works but either I'm doing something wrong or it's missing something or I dunno.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# Program: myrm

if [ "$#" -le 0 ]
then
        echo "Not enough arguments"
        echo "Usage: myrm [arg1] [arg2] etc..."
        exit 1
fi

MAXFILES=""
FILECOUNT=$(ls | wc -l)

if [ -n "$MAXFILES" ]
then

        if [ "$FILECOUNT" = "$MAXFILES" ]
        then
                for i
                do
                        rm -rf $1
                        shift
                done

        elif [ "$MAXFILES" > "$FILECOUNT" ]
        then
                echo "Would you like to delete these files?"
                read choice

                case "$choice"
                in
                        y)      for i; do rm -rf $1; shift; done;;
                        n)      echo "Thank you, have a nice day";;
                        *)      echo "Invalid choice"
                                exit 2;;
                esac
        fi

elif [ -z "$MAXFILES" ]
then
        for i in $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 ${10}
        do
                rm -rf $1
                shift
        done
        exit 0


fi

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asadmin-delete-acl

asadmin-delete-acl(1AS) 					   User Commands					   asadmin-delete-acl(1AS)

NAME

       delete-acl  - removes the access control list file

SYNOPSIS

       delete-acl  --user  admin_user[--password  admin_password][--host localhost] [--port 4848][--passwordfile filename][--secure|-s][--instance
       instance_name] acl_ID

       Gets the access control lists associated with the named server instance..

OPTIONS

       --user		       administrative user associated for the instance.

       --password	       administrative password corresponding to the administrative user.

       --host		       host name of the machine hosting the administrative instance.

       --port		       administrative port number associated with the administrative host.

       --secure 	       indicates communication with the administrative instance in secured mode.

       --passwordfile	       file containing passwords appropriate for the command (e.g., administrative instance).

       --instance	       name of the instance.

OPERANDS

       acl_ID		       internal name for the ACL file listing. This ID is used in a virtual server element to define the ACL file used	by
			       the virtual server.

       Example 1: Using delete-acl

       asadmin> delete-acl --user admin --password adminadmin --host fuyako --port 7070 --instance server1 sampleACL
       Deleted ACL with id = sampleACL

       Where: sampleACL is the ACL that is deleted.

EXIT STATUS

       0		       command executed successfully

       1		       error in executing the command

INTERFACE EQUIVALENT

       Access Control List page

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