Script to move into each home and delete all .g* folders

[Patrick McKnight]

Jim,

You don't need a script; just use the UN*X find command like this:

find /home -name \.g* | xargs rm

NOTE that the code that follows the "-name" is a slash "\" followed by
a dot "." and a g*

Hope this helps.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Jim Christiansen
<jim.c.christiansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, it looks like I've settled on Ubuntu 9.04 for our new/old- rehabbed LTSP
> server.
>
> I'm symlinking my old K12LTSP rsynced home from another drive into the file
> system as the home.
>
> My student homes from the K12LTSPEL5 system are full of all of the wrong
> .gconf ... .gnome folders.  On startup if they don't exist they are created
> no prob.  What I need to do is find a script that will:
>
> cd into each student home
> rm -rf .g*
> cd back out
> cd into the next student home and repeat all the way through the home dir
>
> I'm not having any troubles with the authenticating I don't think.  I've
> appended the old user lines from the k12ltsp group, password and shadow
> files into the new ones.  My rsynced student homes have ownership and other
> permissions preserved.
>
> I think it should all work if it wasn't for all of the old gnome/gconf junk.
>
> Ideas for the script??
>
> Thanks,  Jim
>
>
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Patrick
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