Script to delete files from particular path

$ vi delete

#!/bin/ksh

LOGFILE=/home/ flash /logs/delete.log

touch $LOGFILE

echo " ------Starting Time `date` --------------- ">>$LOGFILE

cd /home/flash/enemy/bad

echo " ------FILE COUNT-----">>$LOGFILE

ls -lR /home/flash/enemy/bad/* | wc -l >>$LOGFILE

ls -ltr *.bad | awk '{print $9}' | xargs \rm

·        Here delete is the script name.

·        Firstly we have created a LOGFILE variable to create logs and defined the path where the log is to be created.

·        Touch command will create and empty file.

·        Echo command output will be redirected (>>) to LOGFILE in which current date stamp is added.

·        When you want to print output of any command inside echo command use : `  at the beginning and end of command.

E.g.: `date`

·        cd will change directory and then write the current count of files into LOGFILE by wc-l command

ls -lR /home/flash/enemy/bad/* | wc -l >>$LOGFILE

·        Here * means alll the types of file. We can specify type of extension to delete specific file.

E.g.: *.bad, *.txt

·        Last command is to remove files from the directory.

·        Then chmod 755 to change permissions of the file.

·        Now  run the script by ./scriptname and will remove the files.