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Read from .txt, find in folder then delete

forro
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Oct 26, 2012, 12:44 AM

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Read from .txt, find in folder then delete	Can't Post

Hello all,

I am trying to ease my work by creating a script to do what I manually do every week:

I have a .txt file with .png file names:
230.png
34.png
.
.

I would like to read the txt file (solved) then to search the files on my system (for eg. "/pictures/new/"), extract the file path (for eg. "/pictures/new/230.png") and then to delete those results / files.

It would help me a lot to solve this.

I am 1/4 through the Begginer's Lama book so I need some help with this to reach the deadline.

Thank you,

wickedxter
User

Oct 26, 2012, 2:21 AM

Post #2 of 4 (554 views)

Re: [forro] Read from .txt, find in folder then delete [In reply to]	Can't Post

open file

#use this only if the file is small less than 100mb
@file =file handle; this sulrps the hole file

open dir
@dir = readdirr;

loop file
loop dir
setup some matches

.........ect

Laurent_R
Enthusiast

Oct 26, 2012, 3:00 AM

Post #3 of 4 (548 views)

Re: [forro] Read from .txt, find in folder then delete [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi,

take a look at the folowwing module: File::Find.

It parses directory trees to look for files. This will probably do what you need.

forro
New User

Oct 26, 2012, 3:26 AM

Post #4 of 4 (547 views)

Re: [Laurent_R] Read from .txt, find in folder then delete [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thank you all,

I will try this tonight and if I get stuck I will come back with some code sample to find the error(s).

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