hey Don,

here are my comments:

Are you saying that if there is a line in deletefiles.txt that is abc , that line should be ignored? - Earlier, I wanted my script to test the existence of my file before its deleted, however now I feel that isnt important so we can ignore this check.

Are you saying that if there is any line that appears more than once in deletefiles.txt , all but one of them should be ignored? - Again, as there are no two similar files to be deleted, we wouldnt have same line appearing more than once here. Also as each line is input manually in 'deletesfiles.txt' file we wouldnt expect having same line repetition.

How do you want to
- As earlier my question was wrong, I do not require this step any more.

Why isn't your script checking whether or not you want to continue before you get into the loop? Wouldn't it make more sense to check that once at the beginning of your script rather than checking it once for very file that is to be processed? - My previous post :When I ran the script for testing now, its actually displaying "Files Deleted" for every file deleted. However, I want my script to display "Files Deleted" only once after successful deletion of all files. Below is output I get now for every file deleted. I guess the issue is related and my knowledge is limited here and require assistance with this step.

Nothing less, I have added timestamps to my existing script.

Code:

echo "CAUTION : Files once deleted cannot be restored"
echo 'Would you like to continue? ("yes" or "no")'
  read INPUT
for i in `cat deletefiles.txt`
do
  if [ $INPUT = "yes" ]
  then
        echo "`date +%Y%m%d-%H:%M` GMT - [*] - Deleting files" $i >> $LOGFILE
        rm -rf $i >> $LOGFILE
        echo "Files Deleted"

 elif [ $INPUT = "no" ]
  then
        echo "`date +%Y%m%d-%H:%M` GMT - [!] - Deleting files cancelled" $i >> $LOGFILE

  else
        echo "Invalid choice, choose again"
  fi
done