On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 05:10:54PM +1100, Andrew Foster wrote:
>
> thing.mp3
> pants.txt
> yer.rtf
> others.html
>
> These files do exist on my system, except they're scattered throughout a
> directory tree hierachy, and there's no path info in my text file to say
> where.
>
To perform all the deleting in one traversal of the filesystem(s) and
fork'and'exec a single rm ...
file=filelist args= ; cat $file | while read line
do
[[ -z $args ]] && args="-name $line" || args="$args -o -name $line"
done
eval "find . $args | xargs rm"
If you are using a shell (like bash) which executes the body of
the while loop in a subshell (or equivalent), you'll need a hack like ..
file=filelist args=
arglist=`cat $file | while read line
do
[[ -z $args ]] && args="-name $line" || args="$args -o -name $line"
echo $args
done | tail -1`
eval "find . $arglist | xargs rm"
cheers,
Bruce.
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