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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with recursive command Post 302664891 by bluebird13 on Sunday 1st of July 2012 09:40:35 AM
Old 07-01-2012
Help with recursive command
Hi,
I need help with recursive function. This is not a part of any homework or classroom related. I am trying to learn unix and working on a question posted on site. basically i have to create a script which does what rm -r does.
my code so far:

Code:
  1 #!/bin/bash
  2
  3 function recursive () {
  4 if ! [ "$(ls -A "$1" )" ]
  5 then
  6       mv -f $1 ~/deleted
  7 else
  8            cd $1
  9            local files=$(ls -A)
 10            echo $files
 11            for f in $files
 12            do
 13
 14               if [ -d $f ]; then
 15                   removeDir
 16                else
 17                    mv -f $f ~/deleted
 18               fi
 19            done
 20 fi
 21 }
 22 recursive example

problem I face is: either files get deleted or directory gets deleted. How do i fix this.
I need to make sure that dirctory gets deleted along with the files inside it.
thanks in advance
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 07-01-2012 at 10:43 AM.. Reason: code tags instead of quote tags
 

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