Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am trying to make a command to delete my files out the trash can, but one at a time.

I am currently using rm - i to do this, but the original file locations for restoring my files are heard on a .txt file which I am using as an index table.

How would I manage to make it so that if I remove a file using rm - i, the original path location is removed from my FileLocations.txt file aswell?

I so far have tried using ls dustbin > dustbin.txt to have a copy of the files in a textfile that still exist, and then I was going to try compare the files and remove the lines that did contain any of the file names in my dustbin.txt file.

The problem is I don't really know how to do this, hope you can help, thanks.

Code:

ls dustbin >list.ini
ls dustbin | xargs rm -i
ls dustin | grep -vf - list.ini >removed.txt
cp -p FileLocations.txt FileLocations.tmp
grep -vf removed.txt FileLocations.tmp >FileLocations.txt
rm removed.txt FileLocations.tmp list.ini

Hi, thanks for the post, I sort of understand what it is supposed to do but when it tries to do the rm -i it is doing it on simply say *file* instead of /root/dustbin/file, trying to mess about with the code but all I got was it asking me the three things quickly without getting to press y or n, and then it simply once again said can't remove file no such directory.

Code:

cd dustbin
ls >list.ini
ls | xargs rm -i
ls | grep -vf - list.ini >removed.txt
cp -p FileLocations.txt FileLocations.tmp
grep -vf removed.txt FileLocations.tmp >FileLocations.txt
rm removed.txt FileLocations.tmp list.ini

Hey, thanks again, it almost works now just there is a problem that when it prompts the rm -i, there is no chance for input it just displays for all the files

rm:remove regular file `file.txt`? Rm:remove regular file `file2.txt`?#

And gives no oppunrtinity to press yes. Do I need to insert some sort of break?

Code:

cd dustbin
ls >list.ini
exec 3<list.ini
while read -u3 a
do rm -i $a
done
exec 3<&-
ls | grep -vf - list.ini >removed.txt
cp -p FileLocations.txt FileLocations.tmp
grep -vf removed.txt FileLocations.tmp >FileLocations.txt
rm removed.txt FileLocations.tmp list.ini

Thank you very much for your help, it now works perfectly.


EDIT: Changed a few things to fix the couple of errors but thanks a lot for your help once again.