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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Delete all files of a particular user Post 302128988 by congo on Friday 27th of July 2007 12:23:36 PM
Old 07-27-2007
loop the mounts

hi there,

you could also do a small loop of the command in the different mounts you have. This could help decrease the number of files.

for i in echo "`df -k | awk '{print $1}'|grep '/'`"
do
find $i -user user_name -exec rm -rf {} \;
done

just an idea - of course it will not make problem better if you have all your files on the same mount.
Otherwise you can make a loop for instance in the 100 largest catalogs by using the `du YOURPWD -ok | sort -nr | head -10 | awk '{print $2 }'` instead of the df -k yadayada example above...


Anyway you do, you should always try to carry out a test using regular expressions to remove files or catalogs. You know... just to make sure anything not intended are trashed...


hope you make it work
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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