Dear visitors.

I'm using Linux Quotas to limit the ammount of space my hosted sites have

However, some sites tend to upload ZIP files and I really don't like that

I have a crontab program that executes "updatedb" everynight, therefore my "locate" database is always up to day.

What I'd like to do is use /bin/bash or /bin/sh to:

1) Locate files with certain extensions (.zip, .exe, .rar) ONLY in certain directories (/home/hosted/*)

2) Move those files to a special folder (/home/hosted/quarantine/*)

This is an example of how I'll do this on bash. However I want a script that will automate this process:


1) locate .zip .rar .exe | grep /home/hosted/

2) That will show the following output
/home/hosted/site1/file.zip
/home/hosted/site1/file.exe

3)
mv -v /home/hosted/site1/file.zip /home/hosted/quarantine/site1/
mv -v /home/hosted/site2/file.zip /home/hosted/quarantine/site2/

Please notice that each site has it's own subdirectory in the "quarantine" folder

This is my attempt to do this automatically with bash:

#!/bin/bash
locate .zip .rar .exe | grep /home/hosted/site1 > site1_files.txt;
echo "site1_files.txt created ok";
for i in site1_files.txt; do mv -v $i /home/hosted/testing; done;
locate .zip .rar .exe | grep /home/hosted/site2 > site2_files.txt;
echo "site2_files.txt created ok";
for i in site2_files.txt; do mv -v $i /home/hosted/testing; done

If I run this script, the system copies the actal files (site1_files.txt, site2_files.txt...) to the respective "quarantine" directories

Regards

Use cat to read file content

Thanks for the suggestion

Here's the script now:

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/quarantine
locate *.zip *.exe *.rar *.tar *.gz | grep /home/hosted/site1 > site1.txt
for i in '/bin/cat site1.txt'; do
mv -v $i ./site1
done

And here's the output

`/bin/cat' -> `./site1/cat'
`site1.txt' -> `./site1/site1.txt'
mv: can't stat source /bin/cat


Any ideas?

You're using the wrong quotes

Change this:
to this:
or this:

Thanks!

That surely worked!

`/home/hosted/site1/Prohibidden-File.zip' -> `./home/qurantine/Prohibidden-File.zip'

What if I want this script to work with names that have spaces?
I tried sed and tr but I don't know much about bash scripting, I will also like to receive an email with this

Regards

Hi xbaez,

Files with spaces into their names is a little tricky. The shell "for" command always break any word on the space, except if it is masked. I had this problem few years ago and I couldn't get any satisfactory solution with this command. So, I changed to use the "while read" command instead of it. Your script will be changed to:This change will put each line of the file into the variable "i", instead of each word.

Good luck!

Osvaldo.

#!/bin/sh
cd /var/www/
for i in `ls -1 /home/hosted/`; do
if ($i!="backup" && $i!="quarantine") {
tar cpzf /var/backup/domains/$i.tgz $i/httpdocs $i/cgi-bin
echo $i #testing
done

Any help will be highly appreciated
I have another script that I'm doing now (right now I'm allowing my hosted sites to publish downloads). I just want to backup all the folders in the /var/www/ folder, with exception of the "backup" and "quarantine" folder