Linux Script to move executable to quarantine

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Please help! I am preparing a Linux Script to move windows executable files from samba directory to quarantine directory. For safety, will use "file" command to determine if its executable. Anyone can help? Below is my trial script, but it just move everything, including non-executable.. any wrong with this?

cd path_of_samba_directory
for i in 'file -ib * | grep x-dosexec'; do
mv $i /tmp;
done

2

You need to do a bit more than that:

SAMBAPATH=/export/samba/quarantine
LIST=`ls $SAMBAPATH`
LOOKFOR="x-dosexec"
for i in $LIST; do
        if (file -ib $i | grep $LOOKFOR > /dev/null 2>&1>/dev/null); then
                echo $i has it
        fi
done

or something like that.

3

Thanks kodak. I finally get it done with this! a bit revision to get it automatically move executable to quarantine directory. And interestingly, a exe file is FOUND not an executable!! but its all fine. :wink:

#!/bin/bash
SAMBAPATH=/exports/samba
LIST=`ls $SAMBAPATH`
LOOKFOR="x-dosexec"
EXE=/tmp/exelist.log

cd $SAMBAPATH
for i in $LIST; do
        if (file -ib $i | grep $LOOKFOR > /dev/null 2>&1>/dev/null); then
                echo $i >> $EXE
        fi
done

cat $EXE | while read index; do mv $index /tmp/quarantine/;done;
rm $EXE