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> 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 . $args | xargs rm"
(couldn't help myself ;)
args=-false
while read line; do args="$args -o -name $line"; done < filelist
find . $args -print | xargs rm
or even:
find . -false `sed 's/^/-o -name /' filelist` -print | xargs rm
(of course, if you're using GNU tools, then the above should both be:
find ... -print0 | xargs -0 rm
to make sure you survive paths with whitespace, etc in them)
or if your locatedb is up to scratch:
while read line; do args="$args */$line"; done < filelist
locate $args | xargs rm
or even:
locate `sed 's,^,*/,' filelist` | xargs rm
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- Gus
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