Hello,

I am very new to bash scripting and I am trying to recursivly deletes files within a directory:

Basically I have a directory and I would like to delete all the abc*.txt files
In my script I attempt to do the following:


#=========================
TESTDIR="/home/test"
if [ -d TESTDIR ]; then
rm -f "$TESTDIR/abc*.txt"
fi
#=========================

Althouth this exact "rm" command works fine within a terminal window, it will not work within my script.

Any suggestions or help will be greatly appreciate.


Best Regards,
-Jim

-r is recurssive so rm -rf /home would remove home and everything else on that branch of the tree. But you must be super user to delete dirs with rm otherwise rmdir.

Hello wolfe2554,

Thats for the reply, but do you know a way of deleting wildcard files:

Such as all /home/abc*.txt

-Jim

My suggestion:
find /home/test -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "abc*.txt" -exec rm {} \;

Check out man find for details on what the switches/arguments do.

Sorry, I originally misunderstood the question. So please ignore this edited post.

jimwelc, further to the "man" command, if you want a quicker simpler help with a specific command try this one:
The --help works with alot of commands and is less... verbal... than the man which is often confusing for bash newcomers