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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Please review script for search in all files Post 302367502 by bkeep on Monday 2nd of November 2009 10:28:44 PM
Old 11-02-2009
Please review script for search in all files

I have written a little script to scan users home directories for certain commands located inside a file. The script is setup to include a small help section and allows for passing a username argument to override scanning of all users home directories.

A lot of searching and trial and error has went into this script on my part. I would appreciate it if some of you that actually know what you're doing can take a look at it for me. If you could give me some pointers, ideas, or suggestions I would be grateful.

Code:
#!/bin/bash

# default folder we will scan
DIR=/home

# a list of commands we need to check for
# seperate commands with a pipe |
LOOKFOR='@system|@shell_exec|@include|@shell'

function help {
  # setup small help list
  echo -e "Pass an aurgument via command line or run without args."
  echo -e "   example: ./filescanner.sh -u username\n"
  echo -e "  -u\t pass a username to run against a single account."
  echo -e "  -h\t This help message.\n"
}

function scanDir {
  # check if $1 else scan all user homes
  if [ "$1" ]; then
    # do stuff on single user
    if [ -d "$DIR/$1" ]; then
      list="$DIR/$1"
    else
      echo "User not found in the \$HOME directory"
      exit
    fi
  else
    # scan all home directories where a user account exists
    list=`grep $DIR /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f6`
  fi

  echo "Checking files for $LOOKFOR."
  for i in $list; do
    path="$i/public_html"
    if [ -d "$path" ]; then
      # check if our path is a directory
      echo "Checking $i/public_html/"
      grep -H -E $LOOKFOR $i/public_html/* -R | cut -d: -f1
    else
      echo "No files to check; $path not a directory."
    fi
  done
}

while getopts  "hu:" flag
do
  case $flag in
    u )
      # echo "$flag" $OPTIND $OPTARG
      # read flag and pass to scanDir function
      scanDir $OPTARG
      exit
    ;;
    h )
      # if h call help function
      help
      exit
    ;;
    * )
      echo -e "Invalid option. Please use -h for help.\n"
      exit
    ;;
  esac
done

# no options passed scan all
scanDir

Best Regards,
Brandon
 

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BASENAME(3)								 1							       BASENAME(3)

basename - Returns trailing name component of path

SYNOPSIS
string basename (string $path, [string $suffix]) DESCRIPTION
Given a string containing the path to a file or directory, this function will return the trailing name component. PARAMETERS
o $path - A path. On Windows, both slash ( /) and backslash ( ) are used as directory separator character. In other environments, it is the forward slash ( /). o $suffix - If the name component ends in $suffix this will also be cut off. RETURN VALUES
Returns the base name of the given $path. EXAMPLES
Example #1 basename(3) example <?php echo "1) ".basename("/etc/sudoers.d", ".d").PHP_EOL; echo "2) ".basename("/etc/sudoers.d").PHP_EOL; echo "3) ".basename("/etc/passwd").PHP_EOL; echo "4) ".basename("/etc/").PHP_EOL; echo "5) ".basename(".").PHP_EOL; echo "6) ".basename("/"); ?> The above example will output: 1) sudoers 2) sudoers.d 3) passwd 4) etc 5) . 6) NOTES
Note basename(3) operates naively on the input string, and is not aware of the actual filesystem, or path components such as " ..". Note basename(3) is locale aware, so for it to see the correct basename with multibyte character paths, the matching locale must be set using the setlocale(3) function. SEE ALSO
dirname(3), pathinfo(3). PHP Documentation Group BASENAME(3)
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