如何“在多个目录（文本文件）中查找所有xml文件并删除”

Question

I have a text file containing the full path to about 1000 directories. Each on a separate line. I would like to delete all .xml files contained in these folders. I can obtain this one at a time using:

find /mnt/local/hhd1/output/data/2010-aug-ph1/ -name "*.xml" -type f -delete

but obviously will take a long time to do by hand. How do I get find to read each line and perform the delete from a text file?

Answer 1

Use a loop to read the directory names from your file and issue a find ... -delete on each of them:

#!/bin/bash

while read -r dir; do
  find "$dir" -name "*.xml" -type f -delete
done < file