I'm getting the strong feeling that...

[L Carver]

...every script I write/rewrite since installing a newer Kubuntu is written wrong from the start.

The one I'm having trouble with now is

• supposed to delete text files ending in .log
• failing to do this one simple thing.

My script:

#!/bin/bash

echo "This script will remove .log files from the current directory."

   rm -v "*log" 2>/dev/null
#   rm -v "*log" 1>/dev/null

    echo "Done."
exit 0

Returns (in stout):

This script will remove .log files from the current directory.
Done.

When I check the real results of running it.

ls *log
killo.log  killtemp.log

So what the expletive is wrong with the script?

Carver

 

[wizardfromoz]

G'day Carver

I am just a novice scripter, but have you tried it with

*.log

# instead of

*log

?

Other than that, one of our scripting gurus will be along sooner or later

Wizard

 

[tchakatak]

Hello L Carver,

Remember also, some logs are owned by root, you might have to run your script with root powers.

Take a look at /var/log and list all of the files.

Why not use a logrotate ? Deleting all the logs... its a bit.. hard no?

 

[CptCharis]

G'day Carver

I am just a novice scripter, but have you tried it with

*.log

# instead of

*log

?

Other than that, one of our scripting gurus will be along sooner or later

Wizard

Yeap, Chris I think the same.