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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Tricky recursive removal (find with grep) Post 302582396 by Chubler_XL on Thursday 15th of December 2011 07:22:19 PM
Old 12-15-2011
Start with the parent directory (in your case ".") and find all directories under this (eg ./KB981322) if a find turns up a *.ver file that contains "sp2" delete the subdirectory:

Code:
PARENT=.
LOOK=sp2
 
for subdir in "$PARENT"/*
do
    if [ -d "$subdir" ]
    then
        find "$PARENT"/"$subdir" -type f -name "*.var" -print | while read file
        do
            if grep -q "$LOOK" "$file"
            then
                rm -rf "$PARENT"/"$subdir"
                break
            fi
        done
done


Last edited by Chubler_XL; 12-15-2011 at 08:28 PM.. Reason: Updated to work with spaces in file/directory names
 

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lookbib(1)							   User Commands							lookbib(1)

NAME
lookbib - find references in a bibliographic database SYNOPSIS
lookbib database DESCRIPTION
A bibliographic reference is a set of lines, constituting fields of bibliographic information. Each field starts on a line beginning with a `%', followed by a key-letter, then a blank, and finally the contents of the field, which may continue until the next line starting with `%'. The lookbib utility uses an inverted index made by indxbib to find sets of bibliographic references. It reads keywords typed after the `>' prompt on the terminal, and retrieves records containing all these keywords. If nothing matches, nothing is returned except another `>' prompt. It is possible to search multiple databases, as long as they have a common index made by indxbib(1). In that case, only the first argument given to indxbib is specified to lookbib. If lookbib does not find the index files (the .i[abc] files), it looks for a reference file with the same name as the argument, without the suffixes. It creates a file with a .ig suffix, suitable for use with fgrep (see grep(1)). lookbib then uses this fgrep file to find refer- ences. This method is simpler to use, but the .ig file is slower to use than the .i[abc] files, and does not allow the use of multiple reference files. FILES
x.ia x.ib x.ic index files x.ig reference file ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWdoc | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
addbib(1), grep(1), indxbib(1), refer(1), roffbib(1), sortbib(1), attributes(5) BUGS
Probably all dates should be indexed, since many disciplines refer to literature written in the 1800s or earlier. SunOS 5.10 14 Sep 1992 lookbib(1)
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