hi ya
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Kurc, Marcin A. wrote:
> #!/bin/bash
> for i in $(ls -l ./ |grep "Dec 21" | awk '{print $9}');
> do
> rm -rf $i
> done
>
> btw, check out http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html and
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/
if the filename ( $i ) has spaces or ' in it... you're in trouble ;-)
...
hopefully you dont have windoze people sharing that disk/directory tree
"Program Files for Tom SW"
"Backup files from Sam's workstation"
MyReleasedLinuxSW.CVS
My_Test_SW
SW
CVS
-- use rm -f " filename " but make sure that "filename" has no double
quotes and if it does use ' and it the files have ' use some unique
string for only that filename-with-ticks-n-quotes
-- use rmdir for empty dirs...
- cd into the dir and remove the files first?? -- too much
work...but...
- simpler to just tell people dont use "'" in the filename...
so there supposedly wont be anything like "bob's files"
have fun
alvin
...
> and inspected the lot. There should be a way to delete these files
> using grep and redirection/piping or a shell script. My thought is some
> kind of iterative script, in pseudo code:
>
> for x in ( ls -l | grep "Dec 21" )
> do
> rm x( suitably parsed )
> done
> exit
>
