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

[Nathan Friend]

Afternoon KLUG,
Last year I wanted a bash script to delete folders if they existed in
a predefined list file.  The end result was:

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

This year I need to delete all files in the /Users/ folder except the ones
listed in dir_list.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Nathan.
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