[K12OSN] Quick way to empty student folders

[Chris Hobbs]

Jim Christiansen wrote:

> Lat year I used some method to empty student folders...  What ever it 
> was I can't think of it.
> Has anyone used a quick way to empty the contents of all of the 
> folders in /home/usernames ?
>
> I need to keep all of the student folders in /home,  but everything in 
> them needs to go...
>

for i in /home/*; do rm -rf /home/$i/*; done

NOT TESTED -- POSSIBLY DANGEROUS -- COULD CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING

OK, you're on your own if you run it, but it makes sense to me...

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