Deleting analog folders in one go

[sc00zy]

I disabled Analog stats for my users and now i want to empty or delete all the analog folders for all accounts. Is there a way using SSH?

 

[dalem]

rm -rf /home/*/tmp/analog


that should work for you

 

[KJ]

Hello,

Regarding

rm -rf /home/*/tmp/analog

Would like verification that this is safe to use. Analog stats have been removed from the servers for quite some time now but some old accounts still have the files in them.

Kindest regards

 

[bellwood]

We only keep analytics data for AWSTATS - cleaning up the old data poses no risk to the server. Depending on your policies or the client, you may want to discuss the importance of the historical data within ANALOG if there isn't parity in the data for the current analytics software you DO use (AWSTATS, etc)

 

[KJ]

Ok understood. Please bare with me though.

My question in other words was if i need to write

rm -rf /home/*/tmp/analog

or if just

rm -f /home/*/tmp/analog

is enough. Don't know what -r refers too and that's why i'm asking.

 

[cPRex]

I'll be that guy - if you're running rm commands with a wildcard option, and you aren't sure what the "-r" value indicates, you need to stop before you accidentally run a command that renders the server useless.

You can *always* check the man page for a Linux command to get a full list of all the flags and how they are used.

 

[KJ]

What guy? :kidding:

-r, -R, --recursive

Remove directories and their contents recursively.

Thanks!

 

[cPRex]

There you go!