How do I check for ~ application/x-trash files

Question

I have this simple bash script to check for ~ application/x-trash files within a directory and its subdirectories.

It works fine, but it echoes empty .~ too, which seems to be harmless but annoying. How do I avoid that?

Script

#!/bin/sh
cd '/var/www/html/mypath/'
for d in $(find '/var/www/html/mypath/' -maxdepth 6 -type d)
do

echo $d
for f in  $d'/'*.*~; 
    do  FILE=$f;
        echo 'file to be removed:  '$FILE
    done
done

For a subdirectory dir, if there is not a ~ file into dir, at the terminal I get anyway:

file to be removed: /var/www/html/mypath/../../../dir/*.*~

Answer 1

Assuming you just want to find any file whose name matches either *~ or .*~ (these are usually backup files left behind by an editor), then this single find invocation will do that for you:

find /var/www/html/mypath/ -type f \( -name '*~' -o -name '.*~' \) -print 

You can insert a -maxdepth 6 in there if you think it makes sense:

find /var/www/html/mypath/ -maxdepth 6 -type f \( -name '*~' -o -name '.*~' \) -print 

To delete the found files, just add -delete to the end of the command.

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When the shell can not expand a filename globbing pattern to a list of names, it is retained as an unexpanded pattern. This is why you get the result you get with your code.

Answer 2

the following does what I need:

#!/bin/sh

cd '/var/www/html/mypath/'

for i in `find '/var/www/html/mypath/' \( -name '*~' -o -name '.*~' \) -type f`; do

    echo 'file to be removed:  '$i
    mv $i   '/var/www/html/trashTest'
done