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Read contents of text file using unix shell scripts [message #172168]

Mon, 15 May 2006 06:08

arunvijay
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Registered: May 2006

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Hi all,

I have a text file which contains the name of the files that has to deleted. My requirement is that, i should read the contents of the text file,line by line,inside the shell script and delete the files mentioned in the text file.

can anyone help me out in solving this????

thnx in advance

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Re: Read contents of text file using unix shell scripts [message #172171 is a reply to message #172168]

Mon, 15 May 2006 06:20

Mahesh Rajendran
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oracle@mutation#cat listoffiles.txt
ross_count.lst
rk1.lst
result.lst
report_indexes.lst
reb_store.lst
reb.lst


oracle@mutation#cat delete_script
#!/usr/bin/bash
DELDIR=/home/oracle/scr/ora/deleteme
cat listoffiles.txt | while read filename
do
echo deleting file $DELDIR/$filename
rm $DELDIR/$filename
done

oracle@mutation#delete_script
deleting file /home/oracle/scr/ora/deleteme/ross_count.lst
deleting file /home/oracle/scr/ora/deleteme/rk1.lst
deleting file /home/oracle/scr/ora/deleteme/result.lst
deleting file /home/oracle/scr/ora/deleteme/report_indexes.lst
deleting file /home/oracle/scr/ora/deleteme/reb_store.lst
deleting file /home/oracle/scr/ora/deleteme/reb.lst

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Re: Read contents of text file using unix shell scripts [message #172197 is a reply to message #172171]

Mon, 15 May 2006 08:17

arunvijay
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Registered: May 2006

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thnx a lot mahesh...ur code perfectly answered by requirement

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