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Topic: Script required to delete a list of files?, Undo mistakes in multi-app extensions

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Juanito

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Posted: April 22 2008,08:38

Thanks:

Code Sample

$ for F in `cat files_list`; do echo "$F"; done [to test/double-check]
# for F in `cat files_list`; do rm "$F"; done

- does indeed delete the files in files_list

On a connected topic:

Code Sample

$ tar -tzf ../myapp.dsl > files_list

- will produce a list of files without the leading "/" required by the delete loop above. Is there a way to have the leading "/" without adding it by hand?

mikshaw

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Posted: April 22 2008,12:54

The leading / is removed when the package is created.
Probably the easiest thing to do is "cd /" before removing files.

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Posted: April 22 2008,17:25

fyi, those code snippets would only work on filenames not containing whitespace.
You could set IFS to newline or use `while read LINE; do echo $LINE; done < filelist ` (which can be more resource friendly afaik)