How do I use a for-each loop to remove all .php files into 0777 folders

Question

The following command attempts to delete all .php files in / if folder permission 0777

find / -type f -perm 0777 -exec rm -rf *.php  \; -exec rm -rf *.html \;

with

find / -type d -perm 0777 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf *.php

it's delete folder not php files

am looking to run it with terminal ssh command

i search for all folders have 0777 and remove all php files into it

HIyour question seems to be not clear. You need to change permissio of .php file — Vishnu Prasad, Mar 30 '17 at 07:41

hassan · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-31T12:05:28.003

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you may easily use RecursiveDirectoyIterator to do this as follows :

$directory = 'test/';

$iterator = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($directory);
$directoryIterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($iterator);

foreach ($directoryIterator as $file) {
    $octalPermission = substr(decoct($file->getPerms()), -4);
    $extension = $file->getExtension();
    if (!$file->isDir() && $octalPermission == '0777' && $extension == 'php') {
        // do some stuff
        unlink($file->getPathname());
    }
}

this will recursively iterate over your php file within a specific directory with a specific permission and delete it .

to use it for only current directory -not recursively- change this :

$iterator = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($directory);
$directoryIterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($iterator);

by the following class :

$directoryIterator = new DirectoryIterator($directory);

Update

However , as long as the OP asks to do this using terminal not php,

you may use the following command :

find ./test/ -type f -name "*.php" -perm 0777 | xargs rm

Update 2 :

to checkout first for directories with permission 777 , as follows :

find ./test/ -type d -perm 0777 | xargs -I {} find {} -type f -name "*.php" -perm 0777 | xargs rm

Update 3 :

to make this command applies in files with spaces/special characters , you may use the -d -delimiter option to set it to \n as follows :

find ./test/ -type d -perm 0777 \
| xargs -I {} find {} -type f -name "*.php" -perm 0777 \
| xargs -d '\n' rm
//      ^^^^^^^ notice this

this will find file name with php extension and permission 0777 then delete them.

Update 4 (31 Mar 2017)

for any of the previous commands , when you try to use xargs command with rm command , if there is no files exists in your search criteria , terminal may prompt an error like following :

rm: missing operand

to avoid this , you will need to add the -r option to xargs :

-r, --no-run-if-empty        if there are no arguments, then do not run COMMAND;

you may use it as follows :

xargs -r -d '\n' rm

edited Mar 31 '17 at 12:05

answered Mar 30 '17 at 08:36

hassan

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you want to execute that ssh command ? you are in php tag so i thought that you want a php way to execute your command – hassan Mar 30 '17 at 08:44
via a php script or your terminal ? – hassan Mar 30 '17 at 08:46
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/139470/discussion-between-mikel-tawfik-and-hassan). – Mikel Tawfik Mar 30 '17 at 08:52
can i search for all folders first have 0777 and remove all php files into it ? – Mikel Tawfik Mar 30 '17 at 09:49
if file name newshell (1).php not delete get error newshell': No such file or directory – Mikel Tawfik Mar 30 '17 at 12:39
you are awesome – Mikel Tawfik Mar 30 '17 at 14:55
can i ask you to make this code to copy /.htaccess to any folder 0777 – Mikel Tawfik Jul 06 '17 at 14:07
I'm out of the town right now, maybe i will be able to answer that next saturday – hassan Jul 06 '17 at 14:26
thank you so much last url i fix it looking for help https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44978623/how-to-export-ssl-key-crt-and-ca-from-httpd-conf-apache-to-use-it-into-nginx-f – Mikel Tawfik Jul 07 '17 at 21:38
find /home*/*/www/ -type d -perm 0777 \ | xargs -I {} find {} -type f -name "*.php" \ | xargs -r -d '\n' rm -v how to exclude multi folder by name – Mikel Tawfik Mar 22 '20 at 17:00

How do I use a for-each loop to remove all .php files into 0777 folders

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