[K12OSN] Quick way to empty student folders

[Jay Pfaffman]

When I write a script like that I always do something like this first:

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

To get an idea what might happen.

It appears that the above won't remove the .dotfiles.  That might
really be the desired result, but you might rather

         cd /home
         for i in * ; do rm -rf $i; mkdir $i; chown $i.$i $i; done

but you might first

                 for i in * ; do echo rm -rf $i; echo mkdir $i; echo
chown $i.$i $i; done

Please note that what's left of a hurricane will soon be hitting me,
and this script could be why.
 
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:05:14 -0700 (PDT), Eric Harrison
<eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> 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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Jay Pfaffman                           <pfaffman at utk.edu>
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