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mightytater

Member

Registered: 2010-04-06

Posts: 1

smbclient rm -r *

Hey All,

I'm fairly new to Archlinux, and I think its great... but I have a platform independant problem with smbclient.  In a script, I am connecting to a windows share that has a number of directories, and I don't know their names.  However, before the script is finished, it should perform rm -r * (or DOS deltree *) in the windows share to clean it up. 

smbclient \\\\server\\share -A authfile -c "rmdir /s /q *"

doesn't work; rmdir doesn't support wildcards. 

I also get a message:
NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_INVALID removing remote directory file \/s
I get something similar if I use two forward slashes, two backward slashes or any other combination of forward and backward slashes preceeding the /s ... but that's probably not important right now if smbclient isn't supporting wildcards.

Any ideas certainly appreciated, and many thanks in advance!

briest

Member

From: Katowice, PL

Registered: 2006-05-04

Posts: 468

Re: smbclient rm -r *

Maybe mount the directory instead? And then simply use rm.