Script to delete flat files from home directory.

[tekpr00]

Hello All:

I have a flat file sample_flat.txt and here are the content.
sample.file.dmp.tar
sample.file2.dmp.gz
.
.
sample.filen.dmp.txt

I will like to write a shell script to be able to take one record from the sample_flat.txt, find the file from home directory / downwards and delete it. Grab the second file from sample_flat.txt search for it and delete it. Lastly, list the files from sample _flat.txt that he could not find/delete.

Thanks for you help.
tekpr00.

 

[stefanhei]

Something like this?

while read FILE_NAME; do
   [ -f "/home/downloads/$FILE_NAME" ] && rm "/home/downloads/$FILE_NAME" || echo "$FILE_NAME not found in /home/downloads."
done < sample_flat.txt