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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting shell script to delete directories... Post 302195726 by rubin on Thursday 15th of May 2008 07:39:46 PM
Old 05-15-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Stephan
...I want to write a script, that will delete all directories within /data/exports/ but not the 2000,2001 and 2002 found at that first level. The 200x found within daily and etc i want gone though.
...
any thoughts, help appreciated.

If you were on Linux, things would have been easier by using -mindepth option of GNU find. In this case we need first to sort the directories that aren't needed:

Code:
cd /data/exports/

find . -type d | awk '!/\.\/200*/' | xargs -p rm -r


Test it first, by removing rm -r part, ( -p will prompt you ), to see if you have the all the desired directories. If you need the dirs that are named as numbers 200x, then change the find part to:

Code:
find . -type d -name "200*"

 

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Test::NoTabs(3) 					User Contributed Perl Documentation					   Test::NoTabs(3)

NAME
Test::NoTabs - Check the presence of tabs in your project SYNOPSIS
"Test::NoTabs" lets you check the presence of tabs in your perl code. It report its results in standard "Test::Simple" fashion: use Test::NoTabs tests => 1; notabs_ok( 'lib/Module.pm', 'Module is tab free'); Module authors can include the following in a t/notabs.t and have "Test::NoTabs" automatically find and check all perl files in a module distribution: use Test::NoTabs; all_perl_files_ok(); or use Test::NoTabs; all_perl_files_ok( @mydirs ); DESCRIPTION
This module scans your project/distribution for any perl files (scripts, modules, etc) for the presence of tabs. EXPORT
A list of functions that can be exported. You can delete this section if you don't export anything, such as for a purely object-oriented module. FUNCTIONS
all_perl_files_ok( [ @directories ] ) Applies "notabs_ok()" to all perl files found in @directories (and sub directories). If no <@directories> is given, the starting point is one level above the current running script, that should cover all the files of a typical CPAN distribution. A perl file is *.pl or *.pm or *.t or a file starting with "#!...perl" If the test plan is defined: use Test::NoTabs tests => 3; all_perl_files_ok(); the total number of files tested must be specified. notabs_ok( $file [, $text] ) Run a tab check on $file. For a module, the path (lib/My/Module.pm) or the name (My::Module) can be both used. AUTHOR
Nick Gerakines, "<nick at socklabs.com>" BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-test-notabs at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Test-NoTabs>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Test::NoTabs You can also look for information at: o AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation <http://annocpan.org/dist/Test-NoTabs> o CPAN Ratings <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Test-NoTabs> o RT: CPAN's request tracker <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Test-NoTabs> o Search CPAN <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-NoTabs> ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Inspired by some code written by Paul Lindner. Test::Strict was used as an example when creating this module and distribution. Rick Myers and Emanuele Zeppieri also provided valuable feedback. Patch to fix warnings provided by Florian Ragwitz (rafl) Currently maintained by Tomas Doran (t0m) "bobtfish@bobtfish.net" SEE ALSO
Test::More, Test::Pod. Test::Distribution, <Test:NoWarnings> COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright 2006 Nick Gerakines, all rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.16.3 2012-06-25 Test::NoTabs(3)
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