Removing Input redirected files

[Sanjay Verma]

Hi Friends,
I've approx. 10 files listed in a ascii file - 'JNK'. Using the rm command, I would like to delete only the files listed in my file 'JNK'. Can you let me know how this can be accomplished?

[V.Tamilvanan · Accepted solution]

Hi,

#for i in `cat JNK`
do
rm $i
done


HTH

[Patrick Wallek]

Another, very similar, way would be

# for i in $(cat JNK)
do
echo "Removing file $i"
rm -i $i
done


The 'rm -i' will ask you if you are sure you want to remove the file. If you don't want to be prompted, make the rm statement read 'rm $i'.

[Sanjay Verma]

Hi Tamil,
When I execute your statement, it says - rm: cat non-existent.

Patricks statement works fine without any error mesg. Any suggestions?

[John Dvorchak]

Ok how about on one line?

for i in `cat JNK`;do rm $i;done

And if you want to see the files:

for i in `cat JNK`;do echo $i;rm $i;done

[John Dvorchak]

One more thing to clarify what I added the little ticks around the `cat JNK` are the back ticks below the tilde ~ character.

[Sanjay Verma]

Thanks for the clarification John. Cheers.