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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Compare files in two folders and delete missing ones Post 302400513 by kaah on Wednesday 3rd of March 2010 11:07:09 AM
Old 03-03-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
A typo in your code:
Code:
#!/bin/sh

for file in *
do
 if [ ! -e /www/kaah/test1/"${file}".torrent ]
then
   # ls "${file}"          # try this first with ls instead of rm
   # ls "/home/kaah/test1/${file}.torrent"
    ls "${file}"          # file current directory
    ls /www/kaah/test1/"${file}".torrent         # files torrent directory
fi
done

Doh! I feel like such a noob Smilie Works fine now! Thanks!
 

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TRANSMISSION-GTK(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 				       TRANSMISSION-GTK(1)

NAME
transmission -- a bittorrent client SYNOPSIS
transmission -? transmission [-pqm] [torrent-file ...] DESCRIPTION
transmission is a fast and easy BitTorrent client. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file transfer protocol which uses a metainfo file (usually with the .torrent file extension) and a central tracker to distribute file data amongst a group of peers. For more information on the BitTorrent protocol see http://www.bittorrent.org/ OPTIONS
-? --help Show help options -p --paused Start with all torrents paused -m --minimized Start minimized in notification area -g, --config-dir directory Where to look for configuration files. This can be used to swap between using the cli, daemon, gtk, and qt clients. See http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/ConfigFiles for more information. Multiple .torrent files may be added at startup by appending them on the command line. If transmission is already running, the torrents will be added to the running instance. ENVIRONMENT
TRANSMISSION_HOME Sets the default config-dir. FILES
~/.config/transmission The config-dir used when neither [TRANSMISSION_HOME] nor [-g] is specified. AUTHORS
transmission was written by Charles Kerr, Josh Elsasser, Eric Petit, and Mitchell Livingston. SEE ALSO
transmissioncli(1), transmission-daemon(1), transmission-remote(1) http://www.transmissionbt.com/ BSD
May 20, 2008 BSD
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