I am writing a bash script and want it to tell me if the names of the files in a directory appear in a text file and if not, remove them.
Something like this:
counter = 1
numFiles = ls -1 TestDir/ | wc -l
while [$counter -lt $numFiles]
do
if [file in TestDir/ not in fileNames.txt]
then
rm file
fi
((counter++))
done
So what I need help with is the if
statement, which is still pseudo-code.
You can simplify your script logic a lot :
#/bin/bash
# for loop to iterate over all files in the testdir
for file in TestDir/*
do
# if grep exit code is 1 (file not found in the text document), we delete the file
[[ ! $(grep -x "$file" fileNames.txt &> /dev/null) ]] && rm "$file"
done