Script to loop directory, read, and delete

[web4fun]

Was wondering if anyone had / knew of a simple k-shell script that will use a loop to generate a list of the files that end in .csv and .dat to be deleted, and delete the files one at a time in the loop after I read them. I would be running this on a Red Hat server.

Apologies as I'm new to scripting and would love some assistance.

Thanks in advance.

 

[web4fun]

Sorry..instead of Red Hat, it would be on a server running Fedora 8.

 

[AvayaTier3]

rm -i *.csv

this is an interactive remove. If you don't type "y" it will not remove, then it goes to the next file and prompts again.

delete or control C will quit out of the commmand


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[exsnafu]

you actually want to loop, view and then be prompted to delete after each view?

for file in `ls *.csv`;do
    less $file
    echo -n "delete $file? [y/n]: ";read delete
    [ $delete = "y" ] && rm $file
done

switch out less with whatever you want to use to view the csv.

 

[web4fun]

Thanks to all. Yes, exsnafu I actually want to loop, view and then prompted to delete after each view so this would be perfect. Thank you so much.

 

[mjoyner]

exsnafu.........

Will that work in bash?

[root@netwatch ~]# yum remove windows
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Setting up Remove Process
No Match for argument: windows
No Packages marked for removal

OH YEAH!

 

[exsnafu]

yup.