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><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">
<div class="im" 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>
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dir_list file contains</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">/<span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-position: initial initial; 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 class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-position: initial initial; 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 class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Users</span>/user3</div>
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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><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Nathan.</div></div>