Using find the way you are here is very dangerous if there are any directories in any of the directories in the current directory. Furthermore, listing explicit files that are not to be processed (instead of files that are to be processed) increases the possibility that you will accidentally remove files unintentionally.
Although I could do this entirely in bash (which seems to the be shell you're using), I find the logic easier to think about with a mix of shell and awk since arrays in awk are more versatile than bash arrays.
The following shell script runs an awk script that creates shell commands to rename and remove the files (any file type including directories) and then feeds those shell commands into another shell. (I STRONGLY suggest that you initially remove the code shown in red so the script will just show you the shell commands it plans to execute. If the results look like what you want to do, put the code back in and rerun the script with the same operands to actually do the work.)
You haven't said what OS you're using; if you want to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk in the script to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, /usr/xpg6/bin/awk, or nawk.
I have a file <filestodelete> containing names of files to to be deleted from a directory <filesstore>.
I want a script file which accptes the <filestodelete> and also the location of the directory(<filestore>) and deletes all files matching.
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Under TEMP folder, it have many sub-folder, example"0015,0016,etc"
I need to discovery those file which are 2 days ago in this sub-folder , and list out to investigate, at the end delete all file in those sub folder, only keep the emptu directory. Thanks (4 Replies)
There are some files in a directory like a.tx~ , b.txt~,c.txt~.
I want to delete all these files inside that directory and sub directory.
How can i do this?
#!/bin/bash
cd thatdirectory
......
rm -rf *~
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Hi ,
I am trying to make a cron job to delete the contents of a directory in a linux environment.The contents created before 2 days should get deleted by this job.Here is what i have written :
/usr/bin/find / -name *.log -ctime +2 -exec /bin/rm -f {} \;
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Hi, what function do we use to delete only particular file that we want in directory shell script
for example I want only to delete test.txt in directory how to do it ? in sh
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I need a script which should watch a directory for a file with specific directory.
If it finds a file in directory, it should search for few specific keyword in the file. if the keyword exists, it should trim string from specific column.
The file should be moved to another directory and the a... (8 Replies)
Hi
My directory structure is as below.
dir1, dir2, dir3
I have the list of files to be deleted in the below path as below.
/staging/retain_for_2years/Cleanup/log $ ls -lrt
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 256 Mar 01 16:15 01-MAR-2015_SPDBS2
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I have a script, which is checking if file exists and move it to another directory
if
then
mkdir -p ${LOCL_FILES_DIR}/cool_${Today}/monthly
mv report_manual_alloc_rpt_A_I_ASSIGNMENT.${Today}*.csv ${LOCL_FILES_DIR}/cool_${Today}/monthly
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