Remove directories in a For Loop

[nrupendra]

I have the following script which is supposed to remove directories after reading a file with the directories list. Though it prints the directores, it always removes the last directory (54515) keeping the first 2 intact. Any help is highly appreciated.


dirnames=`cat filename.csv`

for i in $dirnames; do

echo $i
rm -rvdf /home/mydir/$i

done



Contents of filename.csv

56231
25265
54515

[tpl]

welcome to the forum

try it like this--

for i in `cat filename.csv`; do
echo $i
rm -rvdf /home/mydir/$i
done

[nrupendra]

Thanks for the reply. I found an issue with the .csv file. which has a carraige return at the end of each folder. So I used 'tr' to remove the '\r' at the end of the file name and the scipt worked. Thanks once again.

Nrupendra