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I have a bunch of files in /home/fvw/files, about half of these files is
already on cd-rom, the rest isn't. All files are in subdirectories, wich
themselves don't have subdirs.

I want to delete all the files that are already on the CD, so I tried:

for i in /mnt/cdrom/*/*; do rm /home/fvw/files/$i ; done

But rm give problems because of the spaces in filenames.

So I tried:

for i in /mnt/cdrom/*/*; do rm \"/home/fvw/files/$i\" ; done

Which doesn't work either, because rm thinks the quotes are part of the filename.

Anybody know how to get this working?
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Quote:> I have a bunch of files in /home/fvw/files, about half of these files is
> already on cd-rom, the rest isn't. All files are in subdirectories, wich
> themselves don't have subdirs.

> I want to delete all the files that are already on the CD, so I tried:

> for i in /mnt/cdrom/*/*; do rm /home/fvw/files/$i ; done

try this

cd /mnt/cdrom/
find . -type f -exec rm -f "/home/vfw/files/{}" \; -print

note that you might have to escape the "s on the actual command line.

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I was trying not to mention backtracking.  Which, of course, means that
yours is "righter" than mine, in a theoretical sense.

1. it you type
set -x
the shell will tell you what it is _really_ doing!

2. each $i is /mnt/cdrom/diri/filei so /home/fvw/files/$i is actually
/home/fvw/files/mnt/cdrom/diri/filei if you see what I mean.

I think what you want is something like:
cd /mnt/cdrom; for i in */*; do rm /home/fvw/files/$i ; done

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Ian Smith
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Quote:> 1. it you type
> set -x
> the shell will tell you what it is _really_ doing!

Ah, cute. Parameters to set... That's more reading of 'man bash' for me :-)

Quote:> 2. each $i is /mnt/cdrom/diri/filei so /home/fvw/files/$i is actually
> /home/fvw/files/mnt/cdrom/diri/filei if you see what I mean.

You're right. I tried to make it into a one-liner for this post, but I fscked
up. DOH.

Quote:> I think what you want is something like:
> cd /mnt/cdrom; for i in */*; do rm /home/fvw/files/$i ; done

I've solved it by now (this was what I started with). The problem was
the fact that there where spaces in the filenames. I tried:
cd /mnt/cdrom; for i in */*; do rm \"/home/fvw/files/$i\" ; done
which didn't work, and I didn't know that env. variables in double quotes
(not in single quotes) where still expanded.

The final line was:
cd /mnt/cdrom; for i in */*; do rm "/home/fvw/files/$i" ; done

Thanks for your help.

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                        Frank v Waveren

                        ICQ# 10074100