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Asked: 2026-06-04T16:42:26+00:00

I am a newbie to Shell scripting. I want to delete all the contents

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I am a newbie to Shell scripting. I want to delete all the contents of a directory which is in HOME directory of the user and deleting some files which are matching with my conditions. After googled for some time, i have created the following script.

#!/bin/bash
#!/sbin/fuser


PATH="$HOME/di"

echo "$PATH";

if [ -d $PATH ]
then
 rm -r $PATH/*
 fuser -kavf $PATH/.n*
 rm -rf $PATH/.store
 echo 'File deleted successfully :)'
fi

If I run the script, i am getting error as follows,

/users/dinesh/di
dinesh: line 11: rm: command not found
dinesh: line 12: fuser: command not found
dinesh: line 13: rm: command not found
File deleted successfully :)

Can anybody help me with this?

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are modifying PATH variable, which is used by the OS defines the path to find the utilities (so that you can invoke it without having to type the full path to the binary). The system cannot find rm and fuser in the folders currently specified by PATH (since you overwritten it with the directory to be deleted), so it prints the error.

    tl;dr DO NOT use PATH as your own variable name.

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