delall

This is the mean cousin of the delsome utility for optionally deleting files out of a presented list. It issues deletes for all the files and does not bother asking the user.

There is not much to learn here except for the way the do-it-now quotes are placed around a print statement that puts out the text to delete the files. The do-it-now quotes turn the text into something that is actually done.

#!/bin/sh
# Script     : delall
# Version    : 1.0
# Author     : Roland Rashleigh-Berry
# Date       : 28 July 2003
# Contact    : rolandberry@hotmail.com
# Purpose    : To delete a list of files
# SubScripts : none
# Notes      : THIS UTILITY MUST BE PIPED INTO with a list of files to delete.
# Usage      : ls *.log | delall
# 
#================================================================================
# PARAMETERS:
#-pos- -------------------------------description--------------------------------
# N/A  none (must be piped into)
#================================================================================
# AMENDMENT HISTORY:
# init --date-- mod-id ----------------------description-------------------------
# 
#================================================================================
# This is public domain software. No guarantee as to suitability or accuracy is
# given or implied. User uses this code entirely at their own risk.
#================================================================================

`awk '{print "rm -f", $0}'`