[K12OSN] Quick way to empty student folders

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Fri Sep 17 01:05:14 UTC 2004


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Chris Hobbs wrote:

>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...

I didn't test this either, but I do see one error. This would be
(closer to) correct:

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

NOT TESTED -- POSSIBLY DANGEROUS -- COULD CAUSE AN ICE AGE ;-)

-Eric





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