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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sheel script to Delete a set of files from a given directory Post 302306550 by sauron on Monday 13th of April 2009 05:58:31 AM
Old 04-13-2009
Hi,
bash tells you "command not found" because you typed [-f ... without spaces,
anyway the option "-f" check a single file so even if you write the if statement the right way, the code you posted won't work.

Anyway if you want to delete files you can try this:

Code:
for FILES in $(cat <filestodelete>); do 
rm /path_to_your_directory/$FILES
done

if you want to send the directory as a parameter of the script, you can try what follow

./script_to_delete_files.sh <directory>
in your code you'll write:

[[ -z "$1" ]] && echo "you must enter a dir" && exit 0
[[ ! -d "$1" ]] && echo "Directory $1 doesn't exist" && exit 0

for FILES in $(cat <filestodelete>); do
rm /path_before_your_directory/$1/$FILES
done

Hope it helps

Bye
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 04-13-2009 at 07:32 AM.. Reason: added code tags
 

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