Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I am trying to write a script which will loop through all files that end in ".txt" and ask user if they want to delete the file or not

Code:

#this print out all files
dir=/root/etc/
find $dir -name "*.txt"

output:
1.txt
2.txt
etc

but what i really want is

1.txt delete(Y/N):
2.txt delete(Y/N):
etc


I have tried loops for example

Code:

for file $dir in "*.txt"; do
   echo "$file    delete (y/n)"
done

but they dont seem to be working, any ideas are very much appreciated thanks

Try:

Code:

find "$dir" -name '*.txt' -exec rm -i {} \;

First of all thanks for the replies, the set of commands dont exactly do what i want though unfornutely
@radoulov
Is it possible to modify this slightly to ask the user first before deleting, I have been trying to play around with but cant figure out correct syntax

Code:

find $dir -name "*.txt" -exec echo "delete y/n" {} \; read x {} \;

@cfjohnson
this doesnt seem to search the correct directory, I found an example which will search the correct dir e.g.

Code:

for file in `find $dir -name "*.txt"`; do

The only problem is that some files have spaces in their names for example "/etc/space inFilename"

and then it prints the file out twice ie

/etc/space
inFilename

is there anyway to print it out as one?

Thanks again

Calypso

Hi,

Check the below code

Code:

 
#!/bin/sh
for file in *.txt
do
        echo " \"$file\" delete(Y/N) :"
        read opt
        case $opt in
        [yY])rm "$file"
                echo "$file removed........."
        ;;
        esac
done

Code:

find $dir -name "*.txt" |
  while IFS= read -r file; do

@cfajohnson

Im afraid it still doesnt seem to work, now the script takes out all spaces so when i do

Code:

find $dir -name "*.txt" | while IFS= read -r file; do
  mv -i $file `echo file | sed 's/ //g'`
done

i just get the following errors
/etc/file: No such file or directory
name: No such file or directory