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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove files from subdirectories given a list of filenames Post 302606498 by yogeshkumkar on Sunday 11th of March 2012 08:36:41 PM
Old 03-11-2012
Thanks for the comments Methyl and Dave.
The answer by Dave doesnt work. it simply removes the content of the tobedeted.txt.

The actual dir structure is like

in the main_dir
there are subdirs like AAA, BBB, CCC, ....

inside AAA there are subdirs like aa1, aa2, aa3, ...
inside aa1 there are files like AAA_aa1_file1.txt, AAA_aa1_fileextra.txt, AAA_aa1_mod43a4.txt, ....
inside aa2 there are files like AAA_aa2_file1.txt, AAA_aa2_fileextra.txt, AAA_aa2_mod43a4.txt, ....

inside BBB there are subdirs like bb1, bb2, bb3, ...
inside bb1 there are files like BBB_bb1_file1.txt, BBB_bb1_fileextra.txt, BBB_bb1_mod43a4.txt, ....
inside bb2 there are files like BBB_bb2_file1.txt, BBB_bb2_fileextra.txt, BBB_bb2_mod43a4.txt, ....

and so on...up to many hundred of files. I managed to the get the filenames which I must delete.

e.g. the content of tobedeleted.txt is

AAA_aa1_fileextra.txt
BBB_bb1_file1.txt
BBB_bb1_mod43a4.txt
CCC_cc4_mfg54d2.txt
GGG_gg6_hd21s1.txt
and so on....

i hope there is a way!

Last edited by yogeshkumkar; 03-11-2012 at 09:49 PM..
 

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gensprep(8)							 ICU 50.1.2 Manual						       gensprep(8)

NAME
gensprep - compile StringPrep data from files filtered by filterRFC3454.pl SYNOPSIS
gensprep [ -h, -?, --help ] [ -v, --verbose ] [ -c, --copyright ] [ -s, --sourcedir source ] [ -d, --destdir destination ] DESCRIPTION
gensprep reads filtered RFC 3454 files and compiles their information into a binary form. The resulting file, <name>.icu, can then be read directly by ICU, or used by pkgdata(8) for incorporation into a larger archive or library. The files read by gensprep are described in the FILES section. OPTIONS
-h, -?, --help Print help about usage and exit. -v, --verbose Display extra informative messages during execution. -c, --copyright Include a copyright notice into the binary data. -s, --sourcedir source Set the source directory to source. The default source directory is specified by the environment variable ICU_DATA. -d, --destdir destination Set the destination directory to destination. The default destination directory is specified by the environment variable ICU_DATA. ENVIRONMENT
ICU_DATA Specifies the directory containing ICU data. Defaults to /usr/share/icu/50.1.2/. Some tools in ICU depend on the presence of the trailing slash. It is thus important to make sure that it is present if ICU_DATA is set. FILES
The following files are read by gensprep and are looked for in the source /misc for rfc3454_*.txt files and in source /unidata for Normal- izationCorrections.txt. rfc3453_A_1.txt Contains the list of unassigned codepoints in Unicode version 3.2.0.... rfc3454_B_1.txt Contains the list of code points that are commonly mapped to nothing.... rfc3454_B_2.txt Contains the list of mappings for casefolding of code points when Normalization form NFKC is specified.... rfc3454_C_X.txt Contains the list of code points that are prohibited for IDNA. NormalizationCorrections.txt Contains the list of code points whose normalization has changed since Unicode Version 3.2.0. VERSION
50.1.2 COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2000-2002 IBM, Inc. and others. SEE ALSO
pkgdata(8) ICU MANPAGE
18 March 2003 gensprep(8)
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