[ale] BASH shell scripting help needed

James Baldwin jbaldwin at antinode.net
Fri Mar 18 11:16:00 EST 2005


On 18 Mar 2005, at 10:45, Ryan Fish wrote:

> am in need of some help with writing a BASH shell script to do remove 
> a particular set of directories within a directory.? In hopes of not 
> having to type out each one I would like to load the list of 
> directories to remove from a text file.? Unfortunately, my scripting 
> skills are sub-par at best so I really don't even know where to start 
> with this.

for in `cat directorlisting`; do rmdir $i; done

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