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Deletes those files in a directory ?
Post 302402870 by krishnampkkm on Wednesday 10th of March 2010 09:52:48 PM
03-10-2010
Deletes those files in a directory ?
I need a shell script that accepts 2 directories names bar1 and bar2
as arguments , and deletes those files in bar2 which are are identical to their name
spaces in bar1.
I tried with this code but it gives error.
if [ $# -eq 1 ]
then
echo " syntax <comnd dir1 dir2 > "
exit
else
#echo $1 $2
for i in `ls $1`
do
for j in `ls $2`
do
if [ $i=$j ]
then
unlink $j
fi
done
done
fi
o/p :-
bash-3.1$ sh 17.sh
unlink: cannot unlink `bar1': Is a directory
unlink: cannot unlink `bar2': Is a directory
unlink: cannot unlink `bar1': Is a directory
unlink: cannot unlink `bar2': Is a directory
unlink: cannot unlink `bar1': Is a directory
unlink: cannot unlink `bar2': Is a directory
bash-3.1$
Thnak you
Krish
as arguments , and deletes those files in bar2 which are are identical to their name
spaces in bar1.
I tried with this code but it gives error.
if [ $# -eq 1 ]
then
echo " syntax <comnd dir1 dir2 > "
exit
else
#echo $1 $2
for i in `ls $1`
do
for j in `ls $2`
do
if [ $i=$j ]
then
unlink $j
fi
done
done
fi
o/p :-
bash-3.1$ sh 17.sh
unlink: cannot unlink `bar1': Is a directory
unlink: cannot unlink `bar2': Is a directory
unlink: cannot unlink `bar1': Is a directory
unlink: cannot unlink `bar2': Is a directory
unlink: cannot unlink `bar1': Is a directory
unlink: cannot unlink `bar2': Is a directory
bash-3.1$
Thnak you
Krish
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unlink
UNLINK(1) User Commands UNLINK(1) NAME
unlink - call the unlink function to remove the specified file SYNOPSIS
unlink FILE unlink OPTION DESCRIPTION
Call the unlink function to remove the specified FILE. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
Written by Michael Stone. REPORTING BUGS
Report unlink bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report unlink translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
unlink(2) The full documentation for unlink is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and unlink programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'unlink invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 UNLINK(1)