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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Delete large number of files Post 302515751 by bash-o-logist on Wednesday 20th of April 2011 07:29:55 PM
Old 04-20-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by inakajin
. Could this be executed from the shell directly or would it need to be wrapped in a script?
Code:
while read file; do rm "$file"; done < listoffiles.txt

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Just try it out on the command line. It takes less than 5 seconds to execute it than posting and waiting to get an answer. Put an "echo" in front of the rm command to see if your files are properly interpreted

Code:
$> while read -r file; do echo rm -f "$file"; done < listoffiles.txt

this is the most straightforward way doing it using the shell without any external tools
 

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