delete files with spaces in their names -
Posted: 02 Nov 2017, 23:20
Hi all!
There's a previous post about this issue marked as [Solved] but deleting whiteouts and files by hand is a cumbersome task. See viewtopic.php?p=28192#p28192 . I think a different solution could be found for the same problem.
Let's take a deleted file named my file. I've run a little script using some lines from dump-session to see what happens:
Now let's set Internal Field Separator to <newline>
I'd like to know what you think. Regards,
There's a previous post about this issue marked as [Solved] but deleting whiteouts and files by hand is a cumbersome task. See viewtopic.php?p=28192#p28192 . I think a different solution could be found for the same problem.
Let's take a deleted file named my file. I've run a little script using some lines from dump-session to see what happens:
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FOLDERS=`grep '^/' /etc/changes-exit.conf | sed s/^.//g`
MNAME=/mnt/live/memory/images/changes
for x in `find $FOLDERS -name ".wh.*" 2>/dev/null | sed s/.wh.//g`; do ls -l $MNAME/$x; done
for y in `find $MNAME -name ".wh.*" 2>/dev/null`; do ls -l $y; done
ls: cannot access '/mnt/live/memory/images/changes/root/.wh.my': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'file': No such file or directory
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IFS="
"
FOLDERS=`grep '^/' /etc/changes-exit.conf | sed s/^.//g`
MNAME=/mnt/live/memory/images/changes
for x in `find $FOLDERS -name ".wh.*" 2>/dev/null | sed s/.wh.//g`; do ls -l $MNAME/$x; done
for y in `find $MNAME -name ".wh.*" 2>/dev/null`; do wh=`echo $y | sed -e s^$MNAME^^g -e s/.wh.//g`; do ls -l $y; done
unset IFS
-r--r--r-- 5 root root 0 Nov 2 16:43 /mnt/live/memory/images/changes/root/.wh.my file