Andrew Foster wrote: > So, I have a list of random filenames in a text file: > > thing.mp3 > pants.txt > yer.rtf > others.html > > These files do exist on my system, except they're scattered throughout a > directory tree hierachy, and there's no path info in my text file to say > where. > > I need to find the given files in the tree, then do stuff with them. For > instance, delete them.
#!/bin/sh for file in thing.mp3 pants.txt yer.rtf others.html; do find . -name $file | xargs rm -f done -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug