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

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:20 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> I think as-is, that would delete all of the home folders since it sets 
> the variable "users" and uses "user" which will be empty.   Also you 
> don't want the extra stuff from -l in your ls listing and you probably 
> want to make sure the cd succeeded before removing anything.
> 
typo checking Les is on the case!

Yes that should be $users in all locations.
And yes the rm line is dangerous as it will try and run whether the cd
happens or not. "-1" makes things be a single column from the ls
command.

A better form would be :

for user in `ls -1 /home`
do
 for dotfile in .gnome .mozilla .cxoffice
 do
  rm -rf /home/$user/$dotfile
 done
done

If you know you want to clobber all the same files in all /home
directories

rm -rf /home/*/.mozilla

will remove the .mozilla directory in every /home directory on the
system.

As said in Spiderman "With great power come great responsibility.".
rm -rf is tremendously powerful. Use a ls -lr first to test what you are
about to remove!

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