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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell scripting Post 302987354 by rovf on Thursday 8th of December 2016 10:56:00 AM
Old 12-08-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by Phuti
Hi Guys

I found a script that is doing some cleanups on the server. The script remove the users folders...

Now, I have two users that I don't want the script to remove their folders
You didn't specify, whether you want to use a specific shell for your script. If it is fine for you to use zsh, there is an interesting features which allows you to do globbing, but to exclude certain directory entries. Assuming that the users to exclude are 'stan' and 'olli', you could write something like

Code:
setopt local_options extended_glob
for home in /home/(*~(stan|olli))(N)
do
   # Remove entries starting with name 'folder_' below directory $home
   rm -rf $home/folder_*
done

The setopt command turns on the special "exclusion feature", and the (N) ensures that the loop is skipped if no files match the pattern.
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createhomedir(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 					  createhomedir(1)

NAME
createhomedir -- create and populate home directories on the local computer. SYNOPSIS
createhomedir [-scbalh] [-n directoryDomainName] [-u username] DESCRIPTION
createhomedir provides several options for creating and populating home directories. OPTIONS
-s creates home directories for server home paths only (default). -c creates home directories for local home paths only. -b creates home directories for both server and local home paths. -a creates home directories for users defined in all directory domains of the server's search path. -l creates home directories for users defined in the local directory domain. -n directoryDomainName creates home directories for users defined in a specific directory domain in the server's search path. -u username creates a home directory for a specific user defined in the domain(s) identified in the -a, -l, or -n parameter. If you omit the -a, -l, and -n parameters when you use the -u parameter, -a is assumed. -i reads username list from standard input and creates specified home directories. Each username should be on its own line. -h usage help. FILES
/usr/sbin/createhomedir location of tool CAVEATS
When using the -a option, search limits of various directory servers (such as Open Directory or Active Directory) can prevent all possible home directories from being created. In this case, you may need to specify the usernames explicitly. Mac OS X June 1, 2019 Mac OS X
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