simple alternative to BetterPrivacy firefox addon?

Siljrath · 12-18-2010, 02:34 AM

can someone please confirm i've got this right, and it's not going to hose my entire system...

"sudo rm -r / *.sol"

that should get rid of all flash cookies from the system, right?
(including any that might have somehow decided to hide outside .macromedia directory)

or perhaps there's a better way... perhaps piping a find or locate result to rm, or even a script, that could ask for confirmation before deletion, incase you have other files with .sol extension that arent flash cookies....

any ideas?

unSpawn · 12-18-2010, 07:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Siljrath

can someone please confirm i've got this right, and it's not going to hose my entire system...

You have a space between "/" and "*.sol" so this will do a recursive remove in "/" and next to that remove any files that match "*.sol".
Best get used to using "echo" statements to see what a command does when unsure.
Also, since you use "/", are you browsing the 'net as root user? If you definitely should not.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Siljrath

that should get rid of all flash cookies from the system, right?
(including any that might have somehow decided to hide outside .macromedia directory)

AFAIK none should reside outside your ~/.macromedia directory.

Code:

find /home -maxdepth 2 -type d -name .macromedia | while read SOLDIR; do
 echo "Removing .sol files in "${SOLDIR}""
 find "${SOLDIR}" -type f -iname \*.sol -print0 | xargs -0 -iS rm 'S'
done

or shorter:

Code:

find /home -maxdepth 10 -type f -iname \*.sol -exec rm {} \;

or if ran solely from inside your own unprivileged user account:

Code:

find ${HOME} -maxdepth 2 -type d -name .macromedia | while read SOLDIR; do
 echo "Removing .sol files in "${SOLDIR}""
 find "${SOLDIR}" -type f -iname \*.sol -print0 | xargs -0 -iS rm 'S'
done

or shorter:

Code:

find ${HOME} -maxdepth 10 -type f -iname \*.sol -exec rm {} \;

also see tools like 'bleachbit'.