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

[hess at ub.uni-heidelberg.de (Florian Heß)]

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Note xargs takes care of any limits opposed by the kernel concerning
command line length. `xargs -a fake_users_ids.txt bin/delete_user
REPOID` should do all fine.

Regards
F Hess

Am 09.12.22 um 02:34 schrieb David R Newman via Eprints-tech:
> 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
>