c++ or shell script to delete some files
 

Hi,

Could someone tell me how I can delete files using a shell script or c++? The condition for deleting files: compare all files (say *.deb files) in folder A to those in folder B. If any file in B is also contained A, then delete the one in B.
This could probably done in two lines of shell scripting but I'm very new to programming.

Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, h.y.

Re: c++ or shell script to delete some files
 

what operating system? MS-Windows? use FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile() to get a list of all the files in dir A, store the filenames in a string array. Then use the same functions to get the files in directory B. For each file in B search the array of filenames you created from directory A, if found the delete the file.

Re: c++ or shell script to delete some files
 

Thanks. I use Ubuntu and Windows. I'm looking for a shell script that does this. But I'll try what you're saying as well. Thanks.

Re: c++ or shell script to delete some files
 

Shell scripting is much easier. But this is not the forum for that. There is a UNIX support forum for scripting in daniweb. But you could try this.

#!/bin/bash

pathA='/blah/blah/blah/'

pathB='/blah/blah/blah/blah/'

ext="deb"

for file in $(ls "$pathA"); do

        #

        # Only process DEB files.

        #

        file_ext=${file##*.}

        case $file_ext in

                deb | DEB )

                if [ -e "$pathB$file" ]; then

                        echo deleting "$pathB$file"

                        rm -f "$pathB$file"

                fi

        esac

done

Re: c++ or shell script to delete some files
 

Thanks very much for the code, and for directing me to the right forum. I really appreciate it.