working script

Author: Mte90

readme.md

@@ -39,15 +39,15 @@ In that way is more easy to do script on it in bash or other languages
 # How to use the script:
 #     cat list.txt | xargs -n1 remove-page-by-url.sh
 
-out=`wp get-by-url $1  --skip-plugins --skip-themes`
-if [[ ! -z $out ]]; then
-    command=`cut -d'|' -f1 <<< $out`
-    id=`cut -d'|' -f2 <<< $out`
-    taxonomy=`cut -d'|' -f3 <<< $out`
-    if [[ $taxonomy == 'post' ]]; then
-        wp $command delete $id  --skip-plugins --skip-themes
+out=$(wp get-by-url "$1" --skip-plugins --skip-themes)
+if [[ -n $out ]]; then
+    command=$(cut -d'|' -f1 <<< "$out" | sed 's/^[[:blank:]]*//;s/[[:blank:]]*$//')
+    id=$(cut -d'|' -f2 <<< "$out" | sed 's/^[[:blank:]]*//;s/[[:blank:]]*$//')
+    taxonomy=$(cut -d'|' -f3 <<< "$out" | sed 's/^[[:blank:]]*//;s/[[:blank:]]*$//')
+    if [[ "$taxonomy" == 'post' ]]; then
+        wp "$command" delete "$id" --skip-plugins --skip-themes
     else
-        wp $command delete $taxonomy $id  --skip-plugins --skip-themes
+        wp "$command" delete "$taxonomy" "$id" --skip-plugins --skip-themes
     fi
 fi
 ```