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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting read list of filenames from text file and remove these files in multiple directories Post 302222601 by axel1973 on Thursday 7th of August 2008 05:33:58 AM
Old 08-07-2008
another solution maybe

i found this solutions in some forum lately...
it reads a list of files (with or without pathnames) from a file and removes/deletes them using rm.

Code:
xargs rm -rf </lists/blah.txt

this solutions seems to have a problem if using with files that contains SPACES and stuff..

others use this
Code:
 cat filename.txt | while read file; do rm "$file"; done

this worked for me on files with spaces.

Last edited by axel1973; 08-07-2008 at 07:06 AM..
 

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VIDIR(1)																  VIDIR(1)

NAME
vidir - edit directory SYNOPSIS
vidir [--verbose] [directory|file|-] ... DESCRIPTION
vidir allows editing of the contents of a directory in a text editor. If no directory is specified, the current directory is edited. When editing a directory, each item in the directory will appear on its own numbered line. These numbers are how vidir keeps track of what items are changed. Delete lines to remove files from the directory, or edit filenames to rename files. You can also switch pairs of numbers to swap filenames. Note that if "-" is specified as the directory to edit, it reads a list of filenames from stdin and displays those for editing. Alternatively, a list of files can be specified on the command line. OPTIONS
-v, --verbose Verbosely display the actions taken by the program. EXAMPLES
vidir vidir *.jpeg Typical uses. find | vidir - Edit subdirectory contents too. To delete subdirectories, delete all their contents and the subdirectory itself in the editor. find -type f | vidir - Edit all files under the current directory and subdirectories. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
EDITOR Editor to use. VISUAL Also supported to determine what editor to use. AUTHOR
Copyright 2006 by Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Licensed under the GNU GPL. moreutils 2010-04-28 VIDIR(1)
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