[NTLUG:Discuss] What's the bash equiv of the DOS for % in?

[Michael Patrick]

Given:  Directory A is polluted by improper untarring.  Directory B contains the contents of the tarball.

I think you will find the following of use:

cd directoryb ; for x in *; do rm -rf directorya/$x; done

This got both files and subdirectories in my testing.

Michael

On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 11:04:28PM -0500, Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> DOS:  for %i in (*.*) do del ..\%i
> 
> English: For every instance of a file specified by the wildcard do command
> using that file
> 
> I don't want to delete every file in that subdirectory...just the files that
> I extracted.  So...if I sit in a directory that contains JUST the files that
> came out of the tar and I issue the above DOS command...only I need the
> LINUX version of it... I can automatically clean the files out of the
> trashed up directory.
> 
> *note.  If you use that command in a DOS batch file, you need to use double
> percent signs.