Shell Programming and Scripting

I have been working on a script to list all the name's of a subfolder in a text file then edit that text file and then delete the subfolder base on the edited text file so far I have been able to do every thing I just talked about but can't figure out how to delete the subfolers base on a text file I am new to linux and just learning so if anyone good help me out I would sure appreciated it.

#!/bin/bash
cd /month
folders=$(ls)
echo "$folders" > /file.txt
cat file.txt | \
sed -e s/time1//g -e s/time189//g > customer.txt
rm /file.txt

???
Dont understand much...
You wish to remove a directory (or subdir.) ? If so you would use rmdir, but it has to be empty... The other alternative is rm -rf (man rm rmdir)

Ok I am trying to do a rm -rf for every folder that is listed in my customer.txt so let's say that text file has 3 folder names in it: folder1, folder2,folder3 I want to delete those folder with a rm -rf but the problem is I don't know how to go about this.

Why don't you do
for $i in somefolder/*
do
case $i in
folder1|folder2|folder3)
rm -rf $i
;;
*)
;;
esac
done

I don't understand where you are getting the $1 variable from and I don't understand what the folder1|folder2|folder3 is for if you don't care can you break it down for me or point me to some tutorials.

This is very simple.. really..

Code:

#!/bin/bash

for file in `cat customer.txt`; do
    # -f is for force
    # -r is for recursive
    # -v is for verbose so you can see what it is doing
    rm -rfv $file
done

When I run that script it delete's the customer.txt file and it don't delete the folder's
#!/bin/bash

for file in `cat customer.txt`; do
# -f is for force
# -r is for recursive
# -v is for verbose so you can see what it is doing
rm -rfv $file
done