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Harsh Wardhan
Harsh Wardhan

Reputation: 2158

Delete zip files with matching directory name on Google drive usig colab

I have a directory with numerous zip files on Google drive. Some of those files have been extracted. Now the drive space is full so I need to clean up space. So I want to delete those zip files which have already been extracted. I'm using this command

!for x in `find "drive/My Drive/Refrence_Downloaded/" -maxdepth 1 -type d`; do rm $x.zip; done

But due to the space in the name "My Drive", find command splits the name into two paths. As it is Google drive, I cannot change it's name. How do I fix this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 259

Answers (1)

user1934428
user1934428

Reputation: 22311

@HarshWardhan : The find command itself does not split anything. The problem occurs when you do a

rm $x.zip

and x holds a path containing spaces. In this case, bash will split the arguments before handing them over to rm. Hence you need to avoid a

rm "$x.zip"

a word splitting.

Upvotes: 1

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