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Re: [EP-tech] How can i delete thousands of fake users?

Hi Christian,
You could just add all the user IDs one after another to the delete_user script: 

./delete_user REPO_ID `for ((x=5; x<=25590; x++)); { echo -n "$x "; }`
However, I suspect that command may be too long for bash (i.e. your shell).  You could use xargs but you probably don't want to call the delete_user script 25000+ times, as this will be slow compared to calling it just a few times with multiple arguments. So it may be better to write a bash script that passes 1000 user IDs at a time: 

#!/bin/bash
for ((i=5;  i<=25590; i=i+1000)); do
  ./delete_user REPO_ID `for ((j=i; j<i+1000 && j<=25590; j++)); { echo -n "$j "; }` 
done

Regards

David Newman
On 08/12/2022 5:40 pm, SGI Support | OST - Ostschweizer Fachhochschule via Eprints-tech wrote: 
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Hey

We have many thousands  fake users on our eprints system.  Like this:
24589   1       UNSPECIFIED     Elon Musk recommends this service to receive passive income from investments in cryptocurrency from $1680 per day >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdmlw5iyqf4.quezon.run%2Fde1552&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ceprints-tech%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7Cecffbb682aea42d1143708dad9857b0b%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0%7C0%7C638061464593637797%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=HzUEuWZogbMpkqw6BnBeSjofWvAeieeb1b6iMSfiHu4%3D&amp;reserved=0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

How can i delete them with a script? I found this post, but the user id has to be specified there.  I would like to specify a range, User ID 5 - 25590
https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fjesusbagpuss%2Fd5fa10ef3915e036f0eb24b4a2ad019f&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ceprints-tech%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7Cecffbb682aea42d1143708dad9857b0b%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0%7C0%7C638061464593637797%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=M4b%2FwjujOwBHC0dOOI3EBauHe%2BHfnfoH3OgMBBn1ycA%3D&amp;reserved=0

We use EPrints Release 3.4.2

Thanks
Christian


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