Deleting Directories from a path by reading information from Database columns

[Anonymous Monk]

Hi, According to my logic I need to accomplish in this script(Logic: My perl script should check for a certain column(column name STATUS) in a table(table name INFO). If the status column is equal to 'I OR D' it has to look at the data in the" ID ,number column", remember that ID and number and then go to the location "c:\Documents and Settings\user\Files and delete the directories that are named by this ID.).

I was able to connect to oracle and select the required columns and print them, but need help from here. How to remember the data in the "ID " column and go to the location " c:\Documents and Settings\user\Files" and delete these directories.

Current Script:
#!/usr/perl/5.8.8/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use DBI;


my $db = DBI->connect( "dbi:Oracle:*****", "*****", "******" )
    || die( $DBI::errstr . "\n" );
$db->{AutoCommit}    = 0;
$db->{RaiseError}    = 1;
$db->{ora_check_sql} = 0;
$db->{RowCacheSize}  = 16;
my $SEL = "SELECT  number,id,status FROM info where status in ('I,D')"
+;
my $sth = $db->prepare($SEL);
$sth->execute();

while ( my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array() ) {
    foreach (@row) {
        $_ = "\t" if !defined($_);
        print "$_\t";
    }
   print "\n";
}

END {
    $db->disconnect if defined($db);
}

current output:

number     Id                status
HDF0008    89456R       I
HDF0009    34567R      D


Files:  c:\Documents and Settings\user\Files

HDF0009 -> 34567R -> folder1 , folder2 ....
HDF0008 -> 89456R -> folder1 , folder2....

  DIR  ->  Subdirectory ->  older1 , folder2....

[tokpela]

Are you looking for a way to delete the directories using the Id directory using the "number" column and base directory (c:\Documents and Settings\user\Files)?

If so, then check out remove_tree in the File::Path module.

remove_tree( $dir1, $dir2, ...., \%opts )

The remove_tree function deletes the given directories and any files and subdirectories they might contain, much like the Unix command rm -r or del /s on Windows.

use strict;
use warnings;

use DBI;
use File::Path;

my $base_directory   = 'c:/Documents and Settings/user/Files';

my $db               = DBI->connect( "dbi:Oracle:*****", "*****", "***
+***" )
                           || die( $DBI::errstr . "\n" );

$db->{AutoCommit}    = 0;
$db->{RaiseError}    = 1;
$db->{ora_check_sql} = 0;
$db->{RowCacheSize}  = 16;

my $SEL              = "SELECT  number,id,status FROM info where statu
+s in ('I,D')";
my $sth              = $db->prepare($SEL);
$sth->execute();

while ( my $row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref() ) {

   my $folder    = $row->{number};    # folder
   my $subfolder = $row->{Id};        # subfolder

   my $directory = "$base_directory/$folder/$subfolder";
   
   if (-d $directory) {
   
      if (remove_tree($directory)) {
      
         print "DIRECTORY HAS BEEN DELETED:: [$directory]\n";
      
      } else {
      
         print "[Error] UNABLE TO DELETE DIRECTORY: [$directory]\n";
      
      }
   
   }
   
}

...

[Anonymous Monk]

Hi, I tried your code and it is showing the following errors:
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./db0.pl line 29.

Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./db0.pl line 29.

Undefined subroutine &main::remove_tree called at ./db0.pl line 35.

line 29 is : my $directory = "$base_directory/$folder/$subfolder";

[Anonymous Monk]

You need to import remove_tree, as I said in an earlier post.

And can you please do the most rudimentary of debugging to see what is undefined? Obviously your data doesn't look like you think it does.

[Generoso]

It is not clear what is the relationship between “HDF0009 -> 34567R” and the name of the files you need to delete. Please clarify.

[Anonymous Monk]

Hi,

HDF0009 -> 34567R



HDF0009->is the top level directory



34567R -> is the sub directory in HDF0009( and this 34567R again consists of some sub directories)



so HDF0009 may have other directories(like 12347R, 56789R...)in addition to 34567R. But here we are trying to delete 34567R because this directory contains wrong data.

[Generoso]

Have a look at this Node http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=29734

[Anonymous Monk]

use File::Path 'remove_tree';
remove_tree('path/to/directory');

It's not clear if this is all you are asking.