Perl vs. tcsh?? No contest in this case. The perl version will be a lot easier and make more sense. (Run time is probably not an issue, but I expect it will run faster than the shell script + batch file.) 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my %files;

# load %files with names of all images on disk

for my $disk (qw/F G H/) {
    if ( open( I, $disk."dir.txt" )) {
        while (<I>) {
            next unless ( /_/ );
            my $name = "$disk:\\backup\\" . ( split )[4];
            $files{$name} = undef;
        }
    }
    else {
        warn "unable to open dir.txt for $disk: -- $!\n";
        next;
    }
}

# eliminate hash elements in %files if Netbackup thinks they are on di
+sk

if ( open( I, "cat.txt" )) {
    while (<I>) {
        if ( /([FGH]:\\backup\\)/ ) {
            my $path = $1;
            s/\Q$path\E/*/g;
            my $name = $path . ( split /\*/ )[1];
            delete $files{$name};
        }
    }
}
else {  # best to stop here if that last open failed:
    die "open failed for cat.txt: $!";
}

# delete files that are left in the hash

unlink for ( keys %files );

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(I hoped to say the perl version would be shorter, but that would depend on how you measure script length -- the perl script above is more lines, but fewer characters compared to your shell script, and it does not require the creation of a separate batch file to be run at some other time. And of course, the perl could be shortened to fewer lines.)

In reply to Re: Listing Files in a Directory (Translation From Shell Script) by graff
in thread Listing Files in a Directory (Translation From Shell Script) by Anonymous Monk

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