Command / Script question

[StarWeaver]

What's an easy way to, say, take a file consiting of a bunch of filenames on thier own lines (IE 'tar -zxvf filename > file' output) and feed each one to RM sequentially?

Thanks
-Ronin Agnel StarWeaver

[mastersibn]

Originally posted by StarWeaver:
What's an easy way to, say, take a file consiting of a bunch of filenames on thier own lines (IE 'tar -zxvf filename > file' output) and feed each one to RM sequentially?


Thanks
-Ronin Agnel StarWeaver

If you mean to untar/gunzip lots of files, and then delete the compressed archives, it's simple:
for i in `ls | grep .tar.gz`;do tar xzvf $i;rm $i;done

I think I just posted this same command somewhere else within the last few hours...


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[StarWeaver]

Well i meant more to take a list of file i just accidently untared in the wrong place and elimiante them. But i'll look into that. :)

-RASX