Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
I have one text file input.txt, which has folders path as follows:

Code:

/home/user/automate/abc
/home/user/automate/abc/xyz
/home/user/automate/test
/home/user/automate/test2
/home/user/automate/test2/abc/Main

In those folders i have .svn folder.
1) First i want to remove .svn like rm -rf
2) initialize git repository in those folders ie, run git init command.

Please note that under /home/userautomate/ also have many other folders ~100.I dont want to touch those ( which will have .svn ).
I could go with for loop for all the folders but i want the script to take input as input.txt file.

I would appreciate all your help .

Here is a basic for loop that reads from the input file line by line. You add your operation you want to do

Code:

for dirname in *;
do
  #delete your folder or what ever you want
echo $dirname
done < input.txt

Hi amitranjansahu,

This command will do the action for all the files/dir under the current directory.
this has nothing to do with input.txt

@dragon.1431: please don't execute this command with the delete option directly on your file. else that will delete all the files.


try something like:

Code:

while read path
do
 echo "cd $path || echo unable to change $path"
 echo "rm -rf .svn"
 echo "run git init"
done < file

I have put echo for safely instead of commands. please test first instead applying directly.

Hi Anchal . sorry for the confusion. I just intend to give the idea to get the path from the input file. Thats why i mentioned to change the script as per the need by adding the extra code. Any way thanks for pointing out the concern

Yes, I understood your intention and that's why I pointed that "*" MUST not be used to read the path from the file.
probably, you would have something different in your mind ( something like while read, since you used indirection). but missed that unintentionally.

I told that because I faced this couple of times with myself.

Hi,
thanks anchal_khare.It works as expected.