<br>why not create the list using the find command.<div><br></div><div>find directories matching pattern: find -type d -name fred*</div><div>then pipe the output into grep: grep -v -f myFilesToKeep.txt</div><div><br></div>
<div>Using -v reverses the output so it only outputs lines that aren't in the list (one per line).</div><div><br></div><div>so: </div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">amon@amon1:~$ find / -maxdepth 1 -type d</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/srv</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/sbin</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/var</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/selinux</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/cdrom</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/lib32</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/media</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/home</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/sys</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/tmp</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/mnt</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/opt</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/dev</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/usr</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/root</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/bin</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/boot</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/etc</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/lost+found</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/lib</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/proc</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">amon@amon1:~$ more myFilesToKeep.txt </font></div><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">tmp</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">sys</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">amon@amon1:~$ find / -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -v -f myFilesToKeep.txt </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/srv</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/sbin</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/var</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/selinux</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/cdrom</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/lib32</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/media</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/home</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/mnt</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/opt</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/dev</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/usr</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/root</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/bin</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/boot</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/etc</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/lost+found</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/lib</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/proc</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>so:</div>
<div><br></div><div>for MYDIR in `<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace; ">find / -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -v -f myFilesToKeep.txt</span>` </div><div>do</div><div> rm -rf $MYDIR</div>
<div>done</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><div><b>NOTE: Do not run this as is! unless you want to be left with only /tmp and /sys on your system!</b></div><div><b><br>
</b></div><div>But that's a starting point, play with the man pages for find and grep.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 July 2011 14:22, Nathan Friend <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nathan.friend@gmail.com">nathan.friend@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Afternoon KLUG,<div>Last year I wanted a bash script to delete folders if they existed in a predefined list file. The end result was:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<div style="color:rgb(80, 0, 80)"><div>while read dir</div><div>do</div><div>if [ -d $dir ]</div><div>then</div></div><div>rm -R $dir</div><div>echo "Directory $dir found and deleted."</div><div>else</div>
<div>echo "Directory $dir not found."</div><div>fi</div><div>done < dir_list</div></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div>
<div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
dir_list file contains</div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">/<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 204);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-repeat:initial initial">Users</span>/user1</div>
<div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">/<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 204);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-repeat:initial initial">Users</span>/user2</div>
<div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">/<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 204);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-repeat:initial initial">Users</span>/user3</div>
<div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
This year I need to delete all files in the /Users/ folder except the ones listed in dir_list.</div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div>
<div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Any ideas?</div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cheers,</div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><font color="#888888"><div style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Nathan.</div></font></div>
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