[COLUG] gawk question

[Nathan C. Overley]

Thanks everyone for all your help. I was able to get it to do what I needed.

Nathan

On 20 Aug 2006 at 8:23, William Yang wrote:

> Nathan Overley wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestions. Is there a way to dynamically assign the STUDENT 
> > variable with the names of the users directories?
> 
> STUDENTS="User1 User2 ... UserN"
> 
> for i in ${STUDENTS}; do
> 	STUDENTDIR=`getpwent | gawk -v user="${i}" -F: \
> 				'( $1 == user ) { print $6 }'`
> 	CWD=`pwd`
> 	cd $STUDENTDIR
> 	find . -maxdepth 1 -type -d \! -name career | xargs echo rm -rf
> 	cd $CWD
> done
> 
> # always be very careful with automated find/remove combinations.
> # use this code at your own risk.
> 
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Nathan
> > 
> >> ===== Original Message From jmglov at wmalumni.com, Central OH Linux User Group 
> > <colug432 at colug.net> =====
> >> On 19/08/06, Steven Huwig <shuwig at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>    $ find -d . -mindepth 2 \! -name career -exec rm -d -i {} \;
> >>>
> >>> The -i flag at the end will prompt you for every file deletion, since
> >>> I didn't test that command line thoroughly.
> >> Good suggestion. With dangerous commands, I usually do this first:
> >>
> >> STUDENTS="User1 User2 ... UserN"
> >> cd /home
> >> for i in ${STUDENTS}; do
> >> find $i/ -maxdepth 1 -type -d \! -name career | xargs echo rm -rf
> >> done
> >>
> >> (Thanks for the "\! -name foo" trick--I did not know that bit of find
> >> syntax). Then, I inspect the output, and if satisfied, remove the
> >> "echo" (or, in most cases, replace it with "sudo"), as such:
> >>
> >> STUDENTS="User1 User2 ... UserN"
> >> cd /home
> >> for i in ${STUDENTS}; do
> >> find $i/ -maxdepth 1 -type -d \! -name career | xargs sudo rm -rf
> >> done
> >>
> >> The key point to take away is to be *very* careful with destructive
> >> commands, especially when executing them as root!
> >>
> >> -Josh
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