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Mickwilli - Apr 8, 2006 - 5:25 am

Hi Guys

I wish to learn Apple Script at some time but I need to make something fast.
I want to make a script that deletes a users desktop file and then logs off.

This is for a corprate computer that a single user account is used for lot's of people. It just means that we can shedule it to keep things clean.

Thanks

Mike

smithkennedy - Apr 8, 2006 - 7:50 pm

If you enable "Remote Login" on each of the hosts you need to clean up, this enables you to log in via a terminal over SSH. You can then just do something like the following (this may or may not work, don't blame me if it does bad stuff):

#!/bin/bash
for HOMEDIR in `ls -1 /Users`; do
for ITEM in `ls "$(HOMEDIR)/Desktop/"`; do
rm -rf "$(ITEM)"
done
done

Mickwilli - Apr 8, 2006 - 8:08 pm

I'd much rather an Apple Script that we could shedule on the actuall computers. I 'm not great with the Unix side of things. I'd like to have something simple that doesn't require someone to sit down and do it.

Thanks