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I am planning to use the below code for removing files. I want to echo after all files are deleted. The order in which I delete files or all at onces does not matter.
Please let me know if there is a better way to do this.
Also I would like a safe approach in case the parameter values are blank then it should not wipe out the root directory.
This is overkill. You only need to use ${x:?'error msg'} once for each different $x (the first time it is referenced). And, you won't be able to list the filenames after they have been removed. And, I've never seen an echoen command.
You could try something like the following to list the files to be removed and then remove them. Don't try this if any of your filenames could contain whitespace characters! If there is a chance that any filename you're trying to remove will contain one or more whitespace characters, you need to use more complicated code.
Note, this code has not been tested. I strongly suggest changing the rms in this script to echos until you verify that it will do what you're trying to do.
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Is there an option for 'rm' to "remove everything but these files"?
For instance if I have:
a.txt <-- I just want to remove this one
a_1.txt
a_2.txt
Is there an option ? for this:
rm -? *_*.txt
Thanks,
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i need only mango shoule be there in the file???
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can anyone help me out???
thanks in advance,
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