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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Deleting files in awk Post 302375184 by vikas898 on Thursday 26th of November 2009 11:47:42 PM
Old 11-27-2009
Thanks "steadyonabix"

Thanks Dude, Actually I am new in shell scripting and in UNIX environment.

If u possible plz give some solution, to overcome this problem.

Thanks,

---------- Post updated at 11:17 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:11 AM ----------

#Suppose I have two different directory ...
#with some pattern logs as FILEEXT
#eg. as below

DIRLOC=/opt/logs/db/logs;
export DIRLOC
FILEEXT=DB.*.log;
export FILEEXT

DIR1LOC=/opt/logs/csv/logs;
export DIR1LOC
FILE1EXT=csv.*.log;
export FILE1EXT


find $DIRLOC -name "$FILEEXT" -exec /bin/rm {} \;
find $DIR1LOC -name "$FILE1EXT" -exec /bin/rm {} \;


# so how can i write code which passes a list of file names to rm vi xargs.

# Plz Help !!! :-)
 

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fsck-larch reads an on-disk, committed B-tree created by the larch Python library, and verifies that it is internally consistent. It re- ports any problems it finds, but does not currently fix them. OPTIONS
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