Question

My question is more so a question about code efficiency and simplicity than it is about simply completing a task. The scenario is as such: I would like to create a bash script that uses a for loop to iterate through /Users when it is in each users home directory I want it to see if two different directories exist in the style of:

for USER in /Users/*; do
    if [ -d "$USER/Library/Caches/com.spotify.Client" ]; then 
        rm -rf "$USER/Library/Caches/com.spotify.Client"

…but I need to check for multiple directories. How do I accomplish this in the most elegant way? I would like to avoid using a series of if statements but don’t know the best way to accomplish this.

Finally, I would like to use the find command to find a file, then set the result of the find (i.e. the path to the found file) to a variable and input it into another command. Thank you.

Answer 1

From what I understand of your requirements, I would nest the for loops:

subdirs=(
    "Library/Caches/com.spotify.client"
    "some/other/subdir/"
)

for homedir in /Users/*; do
    for subdir in "${subdirs[@]}"; do
        dir="$homedir/$subdir"
        if [[ -d "$dir" ]]; then
            rm -rf "$dir"
        fi
    done
done