[Klug-general] Bash script to delete folders if they exists

[Nathan Friend]

That's a good idea. thanks.

while read dir
do
if [ -d $dir ]
then
rm -R $dir
echo "Directory $dir found and deleted."
else
echo "Directory $dir not found."
fi
done < dir_list


dir_list file contains
/Users/user1
/Users/user2
/Users/user3


On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Laurence Southon
<laurence at southon.uk.net>wrote:

> On 16/07/10 09:42, Nathan Friend wrote:
> > Thanks Karl that was easy.
> >
> > if [ -d /home/nathan/test2/123 ]
> > then
> > rm -r 123
> > echo "123 deleted"
> > else
> > echo "123 not found"
> > fi
> >
> > if [ -d /home/nathan/test2/456 ]
> > then
> > rm -r 456
> > echo "456 deleted"
> > else
> > echo "456 not found"
> > fi
> >
> If that list of directories is long or might change, you could put it in
> a file /home/nathan/dir_list, one per line, and then make the script
> loop through the list of entries:
>
> while read dir
>
> do
>
> if [ -d $dir ]
> then
> .
>
> .
> fi
> done < /home/nathan/dir_list
>
> Then you just need to change dir_list and not the script.
>
> LS
> --
> Laurence Southon
> Tiger Computing, Bexley
> www.tiger-computing.co.uk
>
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