Robert Everson schrieb:
> After running a few more tests, I have seen that it does traverse into
> the lower directories, but only if the main directory doesn't trigger
> the -nouser action. This is still not what I expected it to do, but it
> does seem to behave exactly like my test server, so I guess I'll have to
> deal with it, unless anyone else has a nugget of information that they
> would like to share.
Hi Robert,
take a look at the "-depth" primary of the find utility.
find /Users -depth +1 -type d -nouser -print
will find all folders (-type d) belonging to no known users (-nouser) at
the first level (-depth +1) after "/Users" and print them to screen.
If you want delete them and you are courageously, try something other
like _-print_:
find -d -P /Users -depth +1 -type d -nouser -exec rm -rf {} \;
_-rf_ is dangerous, so its better to built a list with folders of
unknown users, and delete them in three steps:
1. finding folders to work on
2. delete files in there recursively
3. delete directories recursively
Something like that will do (but check!):
for i in `find /Users -depth +1 -type d -nouser -print`; do
find -d -P $i ! -type d -exec rm {} +
find -d -P $i -type d -exec rmdir {} +
done
_{}_ will be replaced with found files, and the _+_ let find push the
files to _rm_ like _xargs_ (man xargs). The "! -type d" will also find
special files like links, sockets etc., if you don't delete them the
following _rmdir_ will sometimes fail if there such a file (dir not empty).
But double check this for your own, I'm typed this directly from my head
and I didn't worked with the _-nouser_ statement yet.
--
Timm
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