How to rmdev a list of hdisk in one shot in AIX

Question

In AIX I have a long list (more then 30) of hdisks I need to delete them in one shot, what command can I use?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 13 '11 at 11:59

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Generic answer for any command on any Unix-like OS:

while read -r item; do
    rmdev "$item"
done < itemlist.txt

Or:

xargs -d'\n' -n1 rmdev < itemlist.txt

answered Oct 13 '11 at 11:59

u1686_grawity

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 06 '13 at 19:37

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for hdisk in $(cat hdisk.txt);
do;
   rmdev -Rl $hdisk;
done

edited Dec 06 '13 at 19:37

Kevin Panko

answered Dec 06 '13 at 18:52

EM Morrow

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Could you perhaps expand on the answer to explain how it works? It's not terribly difficult to understand, but not everyone is familiar with the syntax of AIX terminal commands. Explaining how it works will make the answer better for future visitors to the site. – Jonathan Garber Dec 06 '13 at 19:29

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