Question

I cannot delete folder created by php mkdir

for I in `echo $*`
do
    find $I -type f -name "sess_*" -exec rm -f {} \;
    find $I -type f -name "*.bak" -exec rm -f {} \;
    find $I -type f -name "Thumbs.db" -exec rm -f {} \;
    find $I -type f -name "error.log" -exec sh -c 'echo -n > "{}"' -f {} \;
    find $I -type f -path "*/cache/*" -name "*.*" -exec rm -f {} \;
    find $I -path "*/uploads/*" -exec rm -rdf {} \;
done

I want to delete under /uploads/ all files and folders please help me thanks…

Answer 1

I think this is most likely because php is running in apache or another http server under a different user than you are invoking the bash script. Or perhaps the files uploaded in uploads/ are owned by the http server’s user and not the user invoking it.

Make sure that you run the bash script under the same user as your http server.

To find out which user owns which file do:

ls -l

If you run you bash script as root, you should be able to delete it anyway, but that is not recommended.

Update

To run it as root for nautilus script use the following as your nautilus script:

gksudo runmydeletescript

Then put all the other code into another file with the same path as whatever you have put for runmydeletescript and run chmod +x on it. This is extremely dangerous!