Font Removal Script

rm -v /Users/*/Library/Fonts/Gotham*

Bad :(

userList=$(ls /Users)
#actually should be something like (dscl . -list /Users NFSHomeDirectory|grep -v ^_) but I'm not going to code that out right now
for oneuser in $userList; do
      rm -v /Users/$oneuser/Library/Fonts/Gotham*
done

Better :)

You could possibly do this a little more concisely with mdfind (Spotlight command line)
For example, if I wanted to find all versions of Arial on my Mac, I might do something like this

mdfind 'kMDItemKind == "TrueType font" && kMDItemFSName == Arial*'

This produces the following list on my Mac:

/Library/Fonts Disabled/Arial.ttf
/Library/Fonts Disabled/Arial Italic.ttf
/Library/Fonts Disabled/Arial Bold.ttf
/Library/Fonts Disabled/Arial Bold Italic.ttf
/Library/Fonts/Arial Unicode.ttf
/Library/Fonts/Arial Narrow Bold.ttf
/Library/Fonts/Arial Narrow Italic.ttf
/Library/Fonts/Arial.ttf
/Library/Fonts/Arial Rounded Bold.ttf
/Library/Fonts/Arial Bold Italic.ttf
/Library/Fonts/Arial Italic.ttf
/Library/Fonts/Arial Narrow.ttf
/Library/Fonts/Arial Black.ttf
/Library/Fonts/Arial Bold.ttf
/Library/Fonts/Arial Narrow Bold Italic.ttf
/Library/Fonts/Microsoft/Arial.ttf
/Library/Fonts/Microsoft/Arial Italic.ttf
/Library/Fonts/Microsoft/Arial Bold.ttf
/Library/Fonts/Microsoft/Arial Bold Italic.ttf

Obviously this only locates any TrueType versions of Arial, so if there were other formats perhaps, it wouldn't pull them up. In this case, I'm ok with specifying TrueType since I doubt there are other Arial font types floating around. I suppose you could drop the kMDItemKind query, but then you'd run the risk of grabbing a file with the word "Arial" in it if it was Spotlight indexed.

You could pass that result to a loop rm command to remove them all from the Mac as it processes the above list.
In the case of the Gotham fonts, are they also TrueType, or some other format? I'm not familiar with that font, so I don't know.

Note that you can also direct mdfind to look only in a directory path. For example:

mdfind -onlyin /Users/ 'kMDItemKind == "TrueType font" && kMDItemFSName == Arial*'

This produces nothing since I'm telling it to only look in the /Users/ directory and subdirectories. Since I don't have any local user level Arial's installed, it doesn't produce anything.

Hope that helps a little.

Thanks all for the help. I appreciate the suggestions. My problem has not been with the script doing what it is supposed to do. The problem is running it at login. Any Ideas around that?

Can you just have a policy and choose 'login' as the trigger?