I need to smbclient into a machine and delete a directory - I'm on a Linux box, but the directory to delete is on a windows box. I want to do it as a one line command so I can write a script to do the same thing on several computers... here's the setup:

smbclient //node001/c$ power -UAdministrator

get's me into the computer.
the directory that needs to be removed is /co_274/rib/scenes/ (I really only need to delete the files in that directory, but deleting the whole directory is fine.)

I've tried:
smbclient //node003/c$ power -UAdministrator -c co_274/rib/scenes ;
smbclient //node003/c$ power -UAdministrator -c co_274/rib/scenes/*.rib ;
smbclient //node003/c$ power -UAdministrator -D co_274/rib/scenes/ -c rm *.rib ;

but none of them seem to work. If I use the -D without the -c, it does start up in the correct directory, but with the -c, I get "no match"

I will eventually write a script to do this on "node001 - node025"

any ideas?

Thanks

Here is a link that should give you your info:

<http://www.linuxprinting.org/man/smbclient.html>


You might try enclosing the commands listed after the -c flag in quotes. I think the file-globbing should be done in the smbclient command and not the shell.

yeah, I checked the man page (the link you gave me)... it was the quotes that I was missing that was causing it not to work. I also needed to do -c "cd foo/bar; rm *.rib" as opposed to -D dir -c rm

thanks