Re: Delete File With Keyboard Accelerator

__/ [Dances With Crows] on Sunday 12 February 2006 15:23 \__

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:55:58 +0000, Roy Schestowitz staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
I am using XMMS. Whenever I press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+Q, I wish for the
currently-listened-to song to be physically deleted. I already have
the full path and the filename output to ~/public_html/track.txt . The
form is as follows:

11:49 02/12/06
, , /media/song_name.mp3,

I need to somehow pull the path and filename out of the file and then
'rm' it. My lack of Linux skills prevents me, however, from
implementing this.

This isn't really a Linux problem. This is more of a shell/Perl
problem. Given a file like that, this is one way. You can do it with
awk and sed as well--that's an exercise for the reader:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# assumes filename with track won't change; fix that if necessary
open(IFP,"/home/me/public_html/track.txt") or die
"could not open file: $!";
$line=<IFP>; # we really don't need the date, do we?
$line=<IFP>;
(undef,undef,$file)=split(/,/,$line);
# NOTE: your example had a ' ' in front of the first / . If this is the
# case with all your track.txt files, you need to uncomment the
# following line:
# $file=~s/^ //;
unlink $file or die "could not unlink \"$file\": $!";
close(IFP);
# end of short barely tested script, save as ~/bin/unlink.pl , chmod +x
# it, configure xbindkeys to execute it when your key combo is pressed.
# HTH,

How can I ever thank you enough?

You helped me tremendously and it works perfectly now!

Best wishes,

Roy
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