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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Code to remove files when corresponding file doesnt exist isnt working. Post 302590315 by Chubler_XL on Sunday 15th of January 2012 05:30:14 PM
Old 01-15-2012
You Don't want backquotes in the for command line. Try something like this:

Code:
for transcriptfile in *.transcript
do
   wavfile=${transcriptfile%.*}.wav
   [ -f "$transcriptfile" -a ! -f "$wavfile" ] && rm -f "$transcriptfile"
done

 

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expack(1)						      General Commands Manual							 expack(1)

NAME
expack - manipulate Flex files SYNOPSIS
expack -a FLEXFILE FILE... expack -c FLEXFILE FILE... expack -x FLEXFILE [INDEX] expack -i MANIFEST expack -l FLEXFILE DESCRIPTION
expack is a command-line utility that lets you extract and create Flex files. Flex files are archives (which means that they act as con- tainers for other files, somewhat like directories) used by Ultima 7 to store most of its data. Note that the names of the original files are not stored in the Flex -- files are only retrievable by their index. Modes of operation -a Add --NOT IMPLEMENTED YET. FUTURE ENHANCEMENT-- This command adds one or more FILEs to the end of FLEXFILE. -c Create This command takes one or more FILEs and bundles them into FLEXFILE, overwriting it in the process. -x Extract Lets you extract the files contained within FLEXFILE. If INDEX is given only the file at this position will be unpacked, otherwise all files are extracted. The created files will be named index.u7o. -i Input Similar to "Create", this command creates FLEXFILE from a number of input files. However, "Input" takes the names of the input files from MANIFEST instead of the command line. MANIFEST must be a list of file names, one per line. The first name is that of the Flex file that is to be created, the rest are the input files used in building it. -l List This command lists the contents of a FLEXFILE. It gives you the number of files contained within the Flex file, as well as the length of each file. EXAMPLES
expack -a animals.flx bee.wav Adds bee.wav to the Flex file animals.flx. expack -a animals.flx hamster.wav snake.wav donkey.wav Adds hamster.wav, snake.wav, and donkey.wav to the Flex file animals.flx. expack -c animals.flx duck.wav cat.wav cow.wav dog.wav Creates a new Flex file animals.flx containing duck.wav, cat.wav, cow.wav, and dog.wav. expack -x text.flx 17 Extracts the file at position 17fromtext.flxinto17.u7o. expack -x text.flx Extracts all files from text.flx into files named 0.u7o, 1.u7o, 2.u7o, etc. expack -i wavlist With wavlist reading: jmsfx.flx ant.wav bee.wav cat.wav will create a new Flex file jmsfx.flx consisting of ant.wav, bee.wav, andcat.wav. expack -l text.flx Lists the number and lenghts of files contained in text.flx. BUGS
The "Add" command (-a) does not work yet. AUTHOR
This manpage was written by Robert Bihlmeyer based on a text by Marc Winterrowd. It may be freely redistributed and modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or higher. Exult 2002-03-23 expack(1)
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