I want to do a server wide deletion, but not sure how to go about it.

I want to delete every index.* file that has 123xxx123 in it, does anyone know of a easy way to get this done?

(primary partion is /home)

Try:
rm -rf *index.*123***123*
I am not sure if you used the xxx as a wildcard (means anything) or not. If so use the above.

Regards

site=`find /home -name index.*`

for II in $site; do
file=`grep 123xxx123 $II`
if [ -n "$file" ]; then
echo "Found 123xxx123 at $II"
rm -f $II
echo "File $II deleted"
fi
done


Hope this helps.

Edited command rm -f: Great suggestion cyansmoker. I am just gotten used to rm -rf everytime I am deleting files. :D

Just a comment; nice script, Cyberservers, however I'd replace 'rm -rf' with 'rm -f'

No need to add the extra risk of erasing a whole directory tree if he makes a mistake while copying your script ;)

find /home -name "index.*" -print|xargs grep -l 123xxx123|xargs rm

Originally posted by cyansmoker
Just a comment; nice script, Cyberservers, however I'd replace 'rm -rf' with 'rm -f'

No need to add the extra risk of erasing a whole directory tree if he makes a mistake while copying your script ;)

Hahaha yea, I had a friend that had a hard time typing, so he did this more then once..

His solution, He built a bash script around rm that looked for the -f and gave him a warning before proceeding to delete everything..

Sort of smart, I always thought rm should have like a -c ( confirm ) then Every action required a one time confirm, unless you have a -c

thanks all, i will give the bash script a try along with the others :)

ok, that worked thanks

now, not sure if this can be done or not. I want to copy index.* from /backupsys/alluserdirectorys)/public_html/ to /home/(allusersdirectorys)/public_html/

is this possible?