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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dos2unix(1) General Commands Manual dos2unix(1)
NAME
dos2unix - DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter
SYNOPSYS
dos2unix [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]
Options:
[-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents dos2unix, the program that converts plain text files in DOS/MAC format to UNIX format.
OPTIONS
The following options are available:
-h --help
Print online help.
-k --keepdate
Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.
-q --quiet
Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.
-V --version
Prints version information.
-c --convmode convmode
Sets conversion mode. Simulates dos2unix under SunOS.
-o --oldfile file ...
Old file mode. Convert the file and write output to it. The program default to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.
-n --newfile infile outfile ...
New file mode. Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be
used or you WILL lost your files.
EXAMPLES
Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.
dos2unix
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.
dos2unix a.txt b.txt
dos2unix -o a.txt b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode. Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode. Convert c.txt from Mac to Unix
ascii format.
dos2unix a.txt -c iso b.txt
dos2unix -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt
dos2unix -c mac a.txt b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.
dos2unix -k a.txt
dos2unix -k -o a.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.
dos2unix -n a.txt e.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.
dos2unix -k -n a.txt e.txt
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.
dos2unix a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
dos2unix -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.
dos2unix -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt
DIAGNOSTICS
BUGS
The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode. If you know why is that so, please tell me.
AUTHORS
Benjamin Lin - <blin@socs.uts.edu.au>
Bernd Johannes Wuebben (mac2unix mode) <wuebben@kde.org>
MISCELLANY
Tested environment:
Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8
SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3
MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02
Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.
SEE ALSO
unix2dos(1) mac2unix(1)
1995.03.31 dos2unix v3.0 dos2unix(1)