poor-man antivirus

[fluca1978]

Hi all,
my usb key has been infected by a windows virus, so that now in all my folders I've got a .exe file with the same name of the folder itself. Removing them was quite easy, since I had no windows executable on the key:

find /media/usb -name '*.exe' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

I was thinking about a one liner that would ensure me to erase only those exe that have the same name of the folder they are into. Any idea?

 

[funky]

$ find /media/usb -type d -exec rm -f '{}'.exe \;

 

[fluca1978]

Nice, but probably it should be:

$ find /media/usb -type d -[b]execdir [/b]rm -f '{}'.exe \;

 

[fonz]

Nice, but probably it should be:

$ find /media/usb -type d -[b]execdir [/b]rm -f '{}'.exe \;

Why do you think the latter is better? I don't think it makes a difference in this case:

$ mkdir -p dir1/dir2/dir3
$ find dir1 -type d -exec echo '{}'.exe \;
dir1/dir1.exe
dir1/dir2/dir2.exe
dir1/dir2/dir3/dir3.exe
$ find dir1 -type d -execdir echo '{}'.exe \;
dir1.exe
dir2.exe
dir3.exe

Seems pretty much equivalent to me.

Fonz

 

[fluca1978]

You are right, they are equivalent.
I tend however to prefer the one that drops me in the directory since I feel a little more secure in the case I've mispelled any argument...