Script to keep specific directories that contains a .txt file and deletes the files from the other directories without the specific .txt file

Question

I am almost done with the script but this outputs directories. What I would like is to have an output of files. Anyway one of you guys wanna help me out? :)

    #!bin/bash
( find /testftp/* -type d ;
  find /testftp/* -type f -iname DONOTDELETE.TXT -printf '%h'
) | sort | uniq -u

Output is:

/testftp/logs

The output is the directory of where DONOTDELETE.TXT doesn't exist. It's pretty close. Just need to display the files.

Answer 1

Here's my take on it:

#! /bin/bash

SPECIAL_FILE=DONOTDELETE
LOGFILE=clean.$(date +"%Y-%d-%m.%H%M%S").log   
FIND_BASE="$1"
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
        echo "Syntax $(basename $0) <FIND_BASE>"
        exit 1
fi
if [ "$FIND_BASE" = "." ]; then
        FIND_BASE=$(pwd)
else
        FIND_BASE=$(pwd)/$FIND_BASE
fi

for d in $(find $FIND_BASE -type d -print); do
        if [ "$d" != "$FIND_BASE" ]; then
                ls $d | grep $SPECIAL_FILE &> /dev/null
                if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
                        echo "Deleting $d" | tee -a $LOGFILE
                        rm -rf $d 2>/dev/null
                else
                        echo "Ignoring $d, contains $SPECIAL_FILE" | tee -a $LOGFILE
                fi
        fi
done
exit 0

Add this to a script, modify the variables with your own naming convention if you like (for the special file and the log name), and then just call it with the starting directory path as a parameter. It will exclude any directory containing the file you want, and delete all the rest.

Answer 2

Thought i'd give this one a go.

#!/bin/bash
# file name and path can not have spaces for this to work.

ignorefile=DONOTDELETE.TXT
dir="`find /testftp/* -type d`";
exists=$(ls $dir | for each in $(find $dir -type f -iname $ignorefile -printf '%h\n'); do echo -en "grep -v $each |" ; done | sed '$s/.$//') 
direxists=$(ls $dir | eval $exists | grep -v $ignorefile | sed 's/:/\//g' | sort | uniq -u)

for pth in $direxists; 
do 
if [ -d $pth ]; then 
if [ "$(ls -A $pth)" ]; then 
echo rm -f ""$pth*""
fi
fi
done

reproduce:
changed dir="`find /testftp/* -type d`";
to
dir="`find ./testftp/* -type d`";

mkdir testftp && cd testftp
for x in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do mkdir $x; done
for y in 1 2 3 4 6 7 9; do touch $y/blah; done
touch 5/DONOTDELETE.TXT
touch 5/some.log
touch 8/DONOTDELETE.TXT
touch 8/another.file

cd ..
$ ./script.sh 
rm -f ./testftp/1/blah
rm -f ./testftp/2/blah
rm -f ./testftp/3/blah
rm -f ./testftp/4/blah
rm -f ./testftp/6/blah
rm -f ./testftp/7/blah
rm -f ./testftp/9/blah