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Rsnapshot, controlled file deletion
I have an Rsnapshotting local server that takes snapshots of folders of miscellaneous computers within the local LAN.
There are daily, weekly, monthly and yearly snapshots.
So somebody puts a file ...
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Getting back rsync's deleted files [duplicate]
I accidentally rsync-ed to a server using the delete attribute when I shouldn't have.
Is there any chance of getting the data on the server that rsync removed.. back?
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how to delete temp and log files with terminal on vps?
I'm kinda pretty new to this but anyone know how to delete any temp and log files or these kind of files on vps with terminal? I'm runnin debian on the vps. I'm troubled since I can't locate those ...
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file mass deletion
I would like to delete all the txt, xls,pdf files in a directory as well as its sub directories. I would like to save everything else.
find . -type f ! -iname '*.xml$,.png$,.jpeg$,.gif$,' -delete
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Script to check a folder, print the files then delete those files
I am looking for some guidance on creating a script that will check a specific folder, print all documents (if any) and then delete those documents. I would also like to run this script as a cron job. ...
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Find and remove large files that are open but have been deleted
How does one find large files that have been deleted but are still open in an application? How can one remove such a file, even though a process has it open?
The situation is that we are running a ...
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How can I delete a folder with lots of subfolders fast?
I have a folder with 266778 subfolders. How can I delete it?
I have tried
cd ~/.local/share/Trash/
sudo rm -rf *
but it takes much time. After 1 minute 25 seconds real time and 0.072 seconds user ...
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Control how linux deletes files
What exactly happens when an application deletes a file?
Is there any way to control this behavior? Basically I want to shred instead of rm in all cases, but of course applications do not make calls ...
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How can I be sure that a directory or file is actually deleted?
I know that most files, when deleted, aren't actually removed from the disk, and can be recovered later.
How can I ensure that a directory I had deleted will actually be removed from the disk? Are ...
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How do I remove a file with no permissions?
A hacker has dropped a file in my tmp dir that is causing issues. Nothing malicious except creating GB's of error_log entries because their script is failing. However, the file they are using to ...
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How to prevent a mistaken rm -rf for specific folders?
I think pretty much people here mistakenly 'rm -rf'ed the wrong directory, and hopefully it did not cause a huge damage.. Is there any way to prevent users from doing a similar unix horror story?? ...
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How to find last deleted files on OpenSuse?
I didn't lock the screen on my OpenSuse Linux and let my girlfriend do all evil things when I was sleeping. Is there a way to find out if she deleted any files from my PC?
I was looking at the "Date ...
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vim backspace not working normally
The Backspace key is not working as expected in vim and also in vi. It is working as the Delete key, and Delete key is deleting the char, but instead something wierd happens. But, for now, I am trying ...
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How to prevent users from deleting a directory?
I tried "chattr +i DIRNAME", it's great, but I cannot create files in the DIR after chattr. What else are there to prevent users from deleting a Directory?
root@HOST ~] mkdir test
[root@HOST ~] ...
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Delete last line from the file
I use sed to quickly delete lines with specific position as
sed '1d'
sed '5d'
But, what if I want to delete the last line of the file and I don't know the count of lines (I know I can get that ...
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How to delete empty comments with sed?
I want to delete empty Java comments like the following:
/**
*/
/*
*
*
*
*/
I tried it with sed, but the following deletes all comments, not just the empty ones:
sed -r ...
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Effectivity of shred on different file systems
man shred warns that the command is not useful on file systems that don't overwrite in-place. I don't have much knowledge about the current and upcoming file systems, but I would suspect that many of ...
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Shredding everything: files/folders and corresponding filenames
Using find, it is easy to shred a directory's contents recursively (as discussed in this question). However, sometimes the filenames on their own carry sensitive information already. Is there a way to ...
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Cannot delete a file - permission denied - why?
[db2inst1][testing ~/sqllib/db2dump] rm db2diag.log
rm: cannot remove `db2diag.log': Permission denied
[db2inst1][testing ~/sqllib/db2dump] id
uid=1002(db2inst1) gid=107(db2iadm1) ...
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undo rm -r, restore data
I was playing around with zip and accidentally deleted my /home/ folder (i wanted to delete home/ which got created by unzipping an archive).
I used rm -r /home/instead of rm -r home/ as root...
Is ...
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How can I switch 2 characters in vi?
I like the fact that I've memorized ddp for switching two lines (i.e. dd deletes the line and then p puts it back '1 higher').
Is there are similar set of keystrokes for switching 2 characters so ...
