Entering into multiple directories in Unix and deleting a particular file

Question

I have a list of directories that I want to go into and delete particular files. For example, the directory names I have are as below:

091513
090213
082612
071611
020908
011009
...
062308

Each of these directories has 4 files in them and the file names are:

dealer_score_01.txt
dealer_score_02.txt
dealer_score_03.txt
dealer_score_04.txt

I want to write a script that would go into each of these directories and delete:

dealer_score_01.txt
dealer_score_03.txt

Can someone please help me with that?

Answer 1

You don't have to go into each directory separately. Just pass the file names you want deleted to find and delete them with the -delete option.

find . -type f \
\( -name 'dealer_score_01.txt' -or -name 'dealer_score_03.txt' \) -delete

Leave out -delete to make sure you delete the right files.

Answer 2

If you have a list of the directories already (as your comments suggest) you could do it with a loop. If the list of directories is, say, in dir_list, and assuming none of your directories contain new lines in their name:

while read -r dir; do
  rm -f "$dir"/dealer_score_0{1,3}.txt
done < dir_list