I need Unix help
- Thread starter Thundermoon1994
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Out of curiosity, what would the other option have been?
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Move into the directory in question. Do the following command:
ls -BC1 > del
A file called del is created with all of the file in the directory listed in side. Then you edit the file del and add a rm in front of each list. Also place a double quote around each file name. Once that is done, do a
sh del
That should execute the little shell script you created.
In the cases that I had the problem you had on other flavors of Unix, that help me resolve the problem.
ls -BC1 > del
A file called del is created with all of the file in the directory listed in side. Then you edit the file del and add a rm in front of each list. Also place a double quote around each file name. Once that is done, do a
sh del
That should execute the little shell script you created.
In the cases that I had the problem you had on other flavors of Unix, that help me resolve the problem.
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yea, I thought about passing it through xargs too... but didn't think that would work since it'd still have to execute rm against a long file name 
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