[Klug-general] Bash script to delete folders if they exists

Nathan Friend nathan.friend at gmail.com
Fri Jul 16 11:28:28 UTC 2010


It's for user folders on a mac.  So the path is actually /Users/username

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Stuart Brand <stuart at stuartbrand.co.uk>wrote:

> What do you want this for? Be careful if you're dealing Cyrus mailbox
> folders...
>
> "Nathan Friend" <nathan.friend at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Morning,
> >I would like a simple bash script to check if a list of user directories
> >exist and if they do delete them.  If they don't output a message and skip
> >to next folder to check.  E.g.
> >
> >Does /Home/user1 exist > Yes > Delete /home/user1 goto next check
> >                                       No  > "user1 not found" go to next
> >check
> >Does /Home/user2 exist > Yes > Delete home/user2 goto next check
> >                                       No > "user2 not found" go to next
> >check
> >end.
> >
> >Any ideas how I can do this?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Nathan.
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