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heinob

Reputation: 19464

How to remove all subfolders that contain certain file and do not contain other file

I want to remove all direct subfolders of the working directory that contain the file core.properties.unloaded and do not contain the file core.properties. I know this must be a combination of find and rm. But how to combine?

Thanks for your help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 74

Answers (1)

Elliott Frisch
Elliott Frisch

Reputation: 201409

Starting like so

$ find . -name "*"
.
./dir1
./dir1/core.properties.unloaded
./dir2
./dir2/core.properties
./dir3
./dir3/core.properties
./dir3/core.properties.unloaded

I ran this 

for i in `find -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -name "core.properties.unloaded" | awk -F'/' '{print $2}'`
do
  if [ ! -f "$i"/core.properties ]; then 
    rm -rf "$i"
  fi
done

And then the find command demonstrates that only dir1 was removed (the other two directories contain core.properties or do not contain core.properties.unloaded) -

$ find . -name "*"

. ./dir2 ./dir2/core.properties ./dir3 ./dir3/core.properties ./dir3/core.properties.unloaded

Upvotes: 1

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