Shell Programming and Scripting

Thank you for the post and is there a way can we only get the output file and error_file but rm operation will be done later.

Code:

while read ID
do
        echo "${ID}.jpg"
        echo "thumbnail/${ID}-tn.jpg"
done < inputfile | xargs rm 2> errlog

So where ID is my input file and i dont want rm operation here and i want to capture the output file and then the files not found in the error_file. Belwo code works perfect to get the output file (i.e) which consists all the file names to be deleted, but the same way can i get the error_file (i.e) files not found.

Code:

while read ID
do
        echo "${ID}.jpg"
        echo "thumbnail/${ID}-tn.jpg"
done < ID >list_file

---------- Post updated 08-24-12 at 11:51 AM ---------- Previous update was 08-23-12 at 05:05 PM ----------

Is there a way that we can capture what files have been deleted from the below while loop?

Code:

while read ID
do
        echo "${ID}.jpg"
        echo "thumbnail/${ID}-tn.jpg"
done < inputfile | xargs rm 2> errlog

---------- Post updated at 11:52 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:51 AM ----------

Code:

while read ID
do
        echo "${ID}.jpg"
        echo "files/${ID}-tn.jpg"
done < ID | xargs rm 2> errlog

Input file here is ID

Not unless you have a psychic computer. How should it know which ones don't get deleted, before it's deleted them...?