On 06/30/2010 04:34 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: >> -rw------- 1 auser auser 3.7K Apr 12 10:11 auser/folder/new/127109228.file >> -rw------- 1 auser auser 16K Apr 12 12:32 auser/folder/new/127110076.file >> >> I would like to write either single-line perl command or a nano search and >> replace to substitute the directory info and replace it with a file delete >> so it would look like this: >> >> rm -f auser/folder/new/127109228.file >> rm -f auser/folder/new/127110076.file
For us old folk we would have used awk for this. It is a simple awk '{printf("rm -f %s\n", $9)}' text_file > rm_file sh -x ./rm_file Tony _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech