I can only second what jim said: applying such complicated logic is dangerous and it is very easy to get into "very deep kimchi" ((c) Neo). I would write a script which takes the filemask as parameter, displays the collection first and asks if this is acceptable, only then deleting it.code]
Having said this: if your shell doesn't support this reversal of matches you could use a find command, which sure does support reversal:
I am trying to discover the sequence of escape characters that I need to pass ksh in order to turn inverse video on and off. I need this information for two reasons:
* I want to include inverse video text in some shell scripts
* I wish to highlight a section of an /etc/motd file
Thanks for... (2 Replies)
I have few days to complete my awk homework. But I'm stucked. i hope some1 will help me out.
I have to inverse n x n matrix, but I have problems with finding the determinant of the matrix.
I found the algoritm, how to find a determinant of n x n matrix:... (0 Replies)
I need to inverse a matrix given in a file.
The problem is I'm stuck with writing determinant finding algoritm into code.
I found this algoritm about finding determinant of nxn matrix. This is what i need:
Matrices and Determinants
and here:
a11 a12 a13
a21 a22 a23
a31 a32 a33... (0 Replies)
Hello,
I'm trying to find an nice solution for the following:
1) I have ranges of numbers (begin-end): 10-15, 20-30, 45-50
2) I have begin limit=0 and end limit=60.
3) I need to find out number ranges between begin limit and end limit that do not overlap with the ranges in item1.
In this... (6 Replies)
Hi List,
I have a CSV file which I am manipulating. Each time I receive the CSV for processing, there will be extra columns of data.
Here's what I want to do; I want to be able to remove specific columns from the CSV data file, but keep the remaining columns, where the remaining columns are... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to wtite a script which actually print the text which doesn't contain a word , i mean to say.
eg:- if a file contains the follwoing data
Hello how ru ???
What ru doing ?
what is the % of data contained ???
I want to write a script such that it prints the line excluding... (1 Reply)
I am totally unexperienced in writing scripts of any kind.
I am working on Mac OS X and would like to run a shell script to find files in a directory that do not conform to a specific naming convention and print to a text file in the same directory.
For example, I have a folder called... (9 Replies)
I ask of you but yet another simplistic question that I hope can be answered. Its better explained showing my code. Here is my list(tmp_pkglist), which contains a list of all Debian (Jessie) packages:
snippet
'zssh (1.5c.debian.1-3.2+b1 , 1.5c.debian.1-3.2 )',
'zsync (0.6.2-1)',
'ztex-bmp... (2 Replies)
I have an interactive script which sorts and processes a variety of filetypes from an unsorted folder into newly created directories.
The script works great, But I was wondering how I could generate a script with an inverse action so that I could unwind / undo the executed script and its sorting... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Braveheart
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remove
remove(3C) Standard C Library Functions remove(3C)NAME
remove - remove file
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h>
int remove(const char *path);
DESCRIPTION
The remove() function causes the file or empty directory whose name is the string pointed to by path to be no longer accessible by that
name. A subsequent attempt to open that file using that name will fail, unless the file is created anew.
For files, remove() is identical to unlink(). For directories, remove() is identical to rmdir().
See rmdir(2) and unlink(2) for a detailed list of failure conditions.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, remove() returns 0. Otherwise, it returns -1 and sets errno to indicate an error.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |MT-Safe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO rmdir(2), unlink(2), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 14 Aug 2002 remove(3C)