[K12OSN] Script to flush down the drain files from every user home...

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 20:48 -0700, Jim Christiansen wrote:
> Hi guys,  Thanks the thoughts.  On the upgrade/wipe-install question.
> Today I backed up the group, shadow, password bla bla bla bla bla
> files, unplugged the back-up rsync drive and did a full wipe then new
> k12el5 install.  Put back the vital parts of the necessary conf files,
> altered the network settings in the template ltsp dir for my different
> network subnet, did the k12 initialize, plugged in the second drive,
> mounted it then rsynced back to the users homes and perms of the
> users...
> 
> Everything is good to go for the fall start of school!  Now for the
> other two boxes!
> 
> OK so. what I need to do is to drop into EVERY users' home and remove
> a set of files...
> 
> I've search high and low, through the lists going back 3 years or so
> and can't find reference to any script that did this.  I think there
> was one that several contributed to that we used to trash the dot
> mozilla, .g* files, and I used it also for getting rid of the dot
> cxoffice folders.  I'm not great at shell scripts.
> 
> Anyone have one?  Thanks,   Jim  :-)

for users in `ls -1 /home`
do
cd /home/$user
rm -rf .mozilla .g* .cxoffice*
done

Just add more dotfiles to the list. This is a very aggressive script and
it will not spare any users. Make sure you have a backup of /home first.
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