[SOLVED] Remove file if a file with the same name but different extension doesn't exist in another directory

Issue

I have 3 directories. I want to delete the files in raw and xml which are not in clean_raw.

sample
.
├── clean_raw
│   ├── 1.jpg
│   ├── 2.jpg
│   └── 5.jpg
├── raw
│   ├── 1.jpg
│   ├── 2.jpg
│   ├── 3.jpg
│   ├── 4.jpg
│   └── 5.jpg
└── xml
    ├── 1.xml
    ├── 2.xml
    ├── 3.xml
    ├── 4.xml
    └── 5.xml

I used rsync to delete the same file names from raw directory using the below line.

rsync -r --delete --existing --ignore-existing sample/clean_raw/ sample/raw/

This deletes the images 3.jpg, 4.jpg from raw directory.

How to delete the file xmls from 3.xml, 4.xml using shell script?

Solution

You're looking for something like this:

for xml in sample/xml/*; do
  jpg=${xml%.*}.jpg
  jpg=${xml%/*/*}/clean_raw/${jpg##*/}
  if ! test -f "$jpg"; then
    echo rm "$xml"
  fi
done

Remove echo if the output looks good.

Answered By - oguz ismail