Trying to remove files listed in file with AppleScript with do shell script call

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The following code is an example of what I'm using at the moment, but it keeps erroring out on me:

do shell script "find /Applications -name 'Bingo.app' > /tmp/remove_files" with administrator privileges
if exists "/tmp_malware_alternate" then
    do shell script ("for i in `cat /tmp/remove_files`; do rm -rf $i") with administrator privileges
    do shell script "rm -rf /tmp/remove_files" with administrator privileges
end if

It's supposed to find the existence of a file (in this case, Bingo.app) and write it to a temporary file (/tmp/remove_files), which it does, and then check to see if the temporary file was written. If it was, it will look into that temporary file, and delete each file (specified by i) in the temporary file listing, then remove the temporary file itself.

Instead, all it ever does is return an error:

/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

or

error "/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file" number 2

What am I missing in this?

Best Answer

You need to close the for loop:

do shell script ("for i in \`cat /tmp/remove_files\`; do rm -rf $i") with administrator privileges

should be:

do shell script ("for i in \`cat /tmp/remove_files\`; do rm -rf $i; done") with administrator privileges
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