Delete files in group of directories

Shell Programming and Scripting
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OS: SUNOS 5.10 i386

Hello guys I wrote a shell script in bash shell to delete the files less than 30 days old. The following is the script.

#!/bin/bash

for dirs in `/clu04/oracle/directory_list.lst`
do
  find $dirs -type f -mtime -30 -exec rm {} \;
done

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basically the directory_list.lst is a file containing the list of directories from which the files should be deleted. following are the directories in the directory_list.lst
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/clu04/oracle/test_dir1/
/clu04/oracle/test_dir2/
/clu04/oracle/test_dir3/

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the following is the error I am getting when I execute the script.
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/clu04/oracle/directory_list.lst: line 1: /clu04/oracle/test_dir1/: is a directory
/clu04/oracle/directory_list.lst: line 2: /clu04/oracle/test_dir2/: is a directory
/clu04/oracle/directory_list.lst: line 3: /clu04/oracle/test_dir3/: is a directory

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Now when I exeucte the following script with out the directory_list.lst and the for loop, it works just fine.

#!/bin/bash

find /clu04/oracle/test_dir -type f -mtime -30 -exec rm {} \;

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Can someone please tell me where I am going wrong?

Thank You

2 
while read line
do
find $line -type f -exec rm {} \;
done < INPUT_FILE

can you try the given command ?

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3

The While loop worked.

Why couldn't the for loop work, I wonder.

but any way thanks a bunch Greet_sed.

4

`/clu04/oracle/directory_list.lst` executes directory_list.lst, it doesn't list the file contents.

`< /clu04/oracle/directory_list.lst` (or cat) would work.

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