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[gaurav.shetti]

Hi i am planning to run a command to delete all .vtx files.
from the console it looks like this
rm /data/pub/scriptroot/scSrch/webinator/testgaurav/*.vtx

Any idea how to get this done via Vortex.
I mean whether exec or sysutil would work and how the syntax would look like

[mark]

<exec "/bin/sh" "-c" "rm" "/data/pub/scriptroot/scSrch/webinator/testgaurav/*.vtx"></exec>

or

<stat row glob "/data/pub/scriptroot/scSrch/webinator/testgaurav/*.vtx">
<sysutil rm $ret>
</stat>

[mark]

Oops, forgot the simplest...

<sysutil rm glob "/data/pub/scriptroot/scSrch/webinator/testgaurav/*.vtx">

[gaurav.shetti]

I tried this
<stat row glob "/data/pub/scriptroot/scSrch/webinator/testgaurav/*.vtx">
<sysutil rm $ret>
$ret deleted
</stat>

.. It doesnt seem to print the value of $ret but it is deleting the files properly

[mark]

From the manual "sysutil returns an empty string on success, otherwise a string describing the first error encountered." So empty $ret is a good thing. If you want to know the filename you should print $ret before calling sysutil.

[gaurav.shetti]

I even tried doing this ..
<stat row glob "/data/pub/scriptroot/scSrch/webinator/testgaurav/*.vtx">
$ret
<sysutil rm $ret>
$ret deleted
</stat>


It just printed
deleted

[mark]

From the manual "sysutil returns an empty string on success, otherwise a string describing the first error encountered." So empty $ret is a good thing.

[mark]

Perhaps you want
<stat ...>
$ret <!--noline-->
<sysutil rm $ret>
<if $ret eq ''>
deleted
<else>
error: $ret
</if>
</stat>