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“rm -rf Filename.iso ” Permission denied
Hi I am facing an issue while deleting an .iso file from Linux x86_64 GNU/Linux.
Here are the permissions for the file:
# ls -lrt
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dev devgrp 2687934464 Apr 12 14:13 ...
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Delete files in directory without erroring if it's already empty
As part of a deployment script, I want to dump some cached stuff from my temp directory. I use a command like:
rm /tmp/our_cache/*
However, if /tmp/our_cache is empty (fairly common when pushing ...
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How to find undeletable files that were removed?
I just created a file:
touch myFile
Made it "undeletable":
chattr +u myFile
and removed it:
rm myfile
How can I get it back? What is the purpose of "u"? Is it used?
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2answers
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rm -fr not working
I have a directory that was generated by mistake by an application and this directory has a structure that involves more than 2000 directories, one inside a another, something like:
Directory aaaa ...
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1answer
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Shell script to delete all files which are older [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Deleting files by age
Write a shell script to delete all the files which are "n" of older that current day, where n can be 3days. 2days, or 1 year etc. The above script ...
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Why can rm remove read-only files?
If I create a file and then change its permissions to 444 (read-only), how come rm can remove it?
If I do this:
echo test > test.txt
chmod 444 test.txt
rm test.txt
...rm will ask if I want to ...
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2answers
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Locate and delete all temporary files in user directory
I use vim a lot, and my area has power failure a lot. So the resultant is I get many *.swp files scattered over my PC.
I want an alias of rm command that removes all files with either .swp, ~, ...
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6answers
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Efficiently delete large directory containing thousands of files
We have an issue with a folder becoming unwieldy with hundreds of thousands of tiny files.
There are so many files that performing rm -rf returns an error and instead what we need to do is something ...
3
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1answer
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mv file without write permission to the source file
I just realised that I can move a file that I do not own and don't have write permissions on. I have write permissions to the directory, so I am guessing that is why I could move it, but in this ...
3
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3answers
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Delete files based on year
I need to delete all files in a directory that were created in 2009. What command can I use to do that?
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3answers
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Delete files if contents do not match pattern
There are hundreds of .html files in a directory. I need to delete files that don't contain word bluecar in their contents.
I thought sed with rm would do that, but I don't know how to combine them.
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rm -rf failing if deleting in parallel
rm -rf will fail if something tries to delete the same file tree (I think because rm enumerates the files first, then deletes).
A simple test:
# Terminal 1
for i in `seq 1 1000`; do mkdir -p ...
