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I ended up doing something very similar to that which appears to have
worked.

-Ryan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Baldwin" <jbaldwin at antinode.net>
To: "Ryan Fish" <FishR at bellsouth.net>; "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts"
<ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] BASH shell scripting help needed

On 18 Mar 2005, at 10:45, Ryan Fish wrote:

> am in need of some help with writing a BASH shell script to do remove
> a particular set of directories within a directory.  In hopes of not
> having to type out each one I would like to load the list of
> directories to remove from a text file.  Unfortunately, my scripting
> skills are sub-par at best so I really don't even know where to start
> with this.

for in `cat directorlisting`; do rmdir $i; done



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