Hi, one more question: how can i assign the result from grep or awk to a
variable in shell script? Thanks.
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From: Aravind Sadagopan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: shell script
> you can use xargs to pass the output to rm..I will be like
> ldapsearch uid=userabc homedirectory | grep homedirectory | awk -F=
'{print
> $2;}| xargs rm -Rf
>
> Cheers
> Aravind S
>
> Vineeta wrote:
>
> > What is the output of /home/userabc like?
> > Does it contain sub-directories which u want to be removed?
> > give me a sample and i'll help you out.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Vineeta
> >
> > Corisen wrote:
> >
> > > i'm writing a simple shell script to automate removal of directories.
> > >
> > > i've managed to extract the user home directory from LDAP server using
> > > "ldapsearch uid=userabc homedirectory | grep homedirectory | awk -F=
'{print
> > > $2;}'".
> > >
> > > the above command result is "/home/userabc"
> > >
> > > pls advise how i can pass the result of "/home/userabe" to "rm -f -r"
to
> > > delete the directory?
> > >
> > > thanks.
> > >
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