[K12OSN] shell script to remove contents of several files

[Olle Niit]

My example, save it to filename.txt and
chmod +x filename.txt
and modify it to your needs.

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#!/bin/sh
#
# A simple script to remove all you want to remove.
#

cd /home
for user in `ls -d *` 
do
	echo "Deleting all old office from user folder $user"
	cd $user
	rm -r -f .rhopenoffice1.1
	rm -r -f .openoffice
	rm -r -f OpenOffice
	rm -r -f OpenOffice.org1.1.0
	rm -r -f OpenOffice.org1.1.1
	rm -r -f OpenOffice.org1.1.2
	rm -r -f OpenOffice.org1.1.3
	cd ..
done


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Barry Cisna wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>Due to the fact ,that I am not smart enough, would someone be able to
>give an example of a shell script that would remove the contents of each
>users, email folder,( but of course leave the user's folder on the
>system). I'm wanting to "clean out" everyone's email at the end of the
>school year.
>In other words something like delete contents
>of /var/mail/allusers<folder contents>.
>I'm not sure of correct syntax of "rm" or "shred"
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Barry Cisna
>
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