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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with recursive command Post 302664899 by bluebird13 on Sunday 1st of July 2012 10:09:13 AM

07-01-2012

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yeah i did meant recursive instead of removedir. I called removedir first. i am creating a replica of rm command so i am just deleted files to destination folder ~/deleted.

my updated code looks like this:

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                 recursive $f
 16         else
 17                 cd ..
 18                 mv $1 ~/deleted
 19                 mv $f ~/deleted/$1
 20
 21         fi
 22         done
 23 fi
 24 }
 25 recursive example

It works perfectly now...It deletes the directory and all folders subsided in it. another problem I come across is errors. It moves my dir/sub files correctly the way I want but after execution it says:

Code:

[bluebird ~]$ sh recursive
file1 file2
mv: cannot stat `dir': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `file1': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `file2': No such file or directory

file1 and file2 resides in dir

so it works but throws this error. what shall i do?

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 07-01-2012 at 01:21 PM.. Reason: code tags instead of quote tags

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NAME

       xzcmp, xzdiff, lzcmp, lzdiff - compare compressed files

SYNOPSIS

       xzcmp [cmp_options] file1 [file2]
       xzdiff [diff_options] file1 [file2]
       lzcmp [cmp_options] file1 [file2]
       lzdiff [diff_options] file1 [file2]

DESCRIPTION

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SEE ALSO

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BUGS

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