Weird BASH behavior with rm

[sostek]

Here's my script, it scp's a tar file from a server, then expands and dumps all into one huge file for analysis by awstats. I then try to use rm -f to remove the dirs created and the files created but it doesn't work.

#!/bin/bash

cd /home/statlogs

/usr/local/bin/scp statlogs@director:/home/statlogs/director_access_logs.tar rssonate_web_logs.tar

tar --ungzip -xvpf rssonate_web_logs.tar

cd data1/weblogs/ssw1
cat access_log.* > ../../../alllogs.log
cd ../ssw2
cat access_log.* >> ../../../alllogs.log
cd ../ssw3
cat access_log.* >> ../../../alllogs.log
cd ../ssw4
cat access_log.* >> ../../../alllogs.log


perl /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/awstats/

http://wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl

-config=rssonate -update

rm -f alllogs.log
rm -rf data1


Can anyone give me any hint as to why the delete isn't taking place?

 

[PHV]

what about simply this ?
#!/bin/bash
cd /home/statlogs
/usr/local/bin/scp statlogs@director:/home/statlogs/director_access_logs.tar rssonate_web_logs.tar
tar --ungzip -xvpf rssonate_web_logs.tar
cat data1/weblogs/ssw[1-4]/access_log.* > alllogs.log
perl /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/awstats/

http://wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl

-config=rssonate -update
rm -rf alllogs.log data1

Hope This Helps, PH.
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