Questions tagged [rm]
rm is the command to remove files
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Stop systemd from cleaning my /tmp
Before the advent of systemd, my /tmp was cleaned when and only when I rebooted my machine. I was happy.
Now systemd has changed this decades-old default so that my /tmp is cleaned every 24 hours, ...
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delete files based on selective dates from directory
I have a directory which stores db backup files every day. Using unix shell command, I need to delete all files of older than a month, except the backup files from 1st and 15th day of the month. For ...
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Why am I getting “Directory not empty” with “rm -rf”?
I'm using macOS with rm tool from GNU coreutils (not macOS’s own rm).
So I have a script where I clean up some directory like this:
if [ -d "${cleanup_repo_clone_root}" ]; then
echo "Cleaning up ...
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Can't remove a file with file mode bits a+rw
I have a file with the following file mode bits (a+rw):
[0] mypc<johndoe>:~>sudo touch /tmp/test
[0] mypc<johndoe>:~>sudo chmod a+rw /tmp/test
[0] mypc<johndoe>:~>ls -l ...
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cannot permanently delete Xcode.app in trash, not even if with “sudo rm -rf” because directory is not empty?
I run on osx 10.14, and I was trying to delete and reinstall xcode. I have also tried the following in safe mode but have the exact same problems.
I moved xcode.app to trash, right clicked and chose ...
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Using rm --one-file-system to only delete files on the local filesystem
I have a FUSE mount located in /media/writable, however, sometimes this FUSE mount disconnects, but some programs will still attempt to write to /media/writable.
When I restart the FUSE mount service,...
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Is App: /bin/rm a Friend or Foe in OSX?
Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac keeps notifying me that it has blocked App:/bin/rm with the following message:
An app you previously chose to block attempted to access your protected files again. We ...
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I can see but cannot delete a file [closed]
I am running Linux Mint.I tried to copy a file with the file manager. It looked like it hung.
I can see the file in the directory with ls -l:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mike domain^users 20 Mar 1 08:57 'output (...
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Why can't I remove some files on an external hard drive?
On my external HDD with a single NTFS filesystem, why can't I remove some files? How can I solve the problem?
Detach and reattach the external HDD to my computer doesn't help, so it seems no process ...
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Strange case of truly invisible file (?) and undeletable directory on macOS [migrated]
I'm having issues deleting a directory on my macOS Mojave 10.14.3 system.
The filesystem is APFS and these are the symptoms:
$ rm -rf strange/
rm: strange/: Directory not empty
$ sudo rm -rf ...
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remove files under specific folder
What is the diff between the following two approach ?
find /calc -type f -delete
find /calc -type f -exec rm -f {} +
my target is to remove any jar file/s under calc folder
any prefered of one of ...
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How to remove a file or folder from within the grub terminal?
I'm encountering problem with my dual-boot installation.
I already experienced grub problems in the past, at that time I just deleted a folder (resulting from a faulty distrib install) in my EFI ...
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Why is “rm -r” unable to delete this folder?
I have a folder with -wx permissions called folder1 and another folder inside it called folder2 with rwx permissions.
I tried to delete folder1 using this command:
rm -r folder1
But I got the ...
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delete folder for all users on Mac
I'm using below command to delete folder
rm -rf /Users/*/Library/Group\ Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User\ Content.localized/Templates.localized/
The command is working only for single user. I want ...
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remove program from local terminal
I tried to remove gfortran program from the local terminal windows by:
rm -rf /usr/local/bin/gfortran
but always I am facing the following :
override rwxrwxr-x root/wheel for gfortran?
I ...
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How to delete corrupted directory on Linux
I have a machine which has a directory that seems corrupt. The output of ls -lah is something like:
??????????? ? ? ? ? ? dir_name
This used to be a valid directory in a ...
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How to escape parenthesis in bash rmdir?
I have a directory that has a name like 10.2 (14C92) i want to remove using rmdir -rf (to include their content). I do know how to pass a space with \ but I got the result:
-bash: syntax error near ...
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Deleting non-empty directory without w permission while having w permission in parent directory
Here's the situation:
dir1/dir2/file.txt
permissions:
drwxrwxrwx 4 me group 4.0K Jan 11 17:53 dir1
drwxr-xr-x 4 other_guy group 4.0K Jan 11 17:48 dir2
-rw-r--r-- 1 other_guy group 158 Jan 11 17:...
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How to delete all directories in a directory older than 2 weeks except the latest one that match a file pattern?
I have the following path:
/dir1/dir2/
In this path I have the following directories containing various (not relevant) application detrius:
follower1234 1-Dec-2018
follower3456 2-Dec-2018
...
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how to delete files in folder with thousands of files [duplicate]
in the folder
cd /var/log/hive
I guess we have thundered of log files
I say that because
if I do under this folder
ls -l
then its stuck and only CNTRL C , will exit
so I cant to vew all ...
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What are the differences between rm and '-delete' in find? [duplicate]
We want to delete the files under /tmp that are older than 100 minutes.
What is the difference between:
find /tmp -type f -mmin +100 -exec rm {} \;
and:
find /tmp -type f -mmin +100 -exec -delete
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Remove files in linux with different folder files to delete in a folder as particular folder
I want to remove multiple (all) files with different suffixes (.log,.bin) in a particular directory (/home/username) in a one-line command. How could I do that?
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How to prevent “rm -rf ~” from being executed by mistake?
Is there any way to completely prevent this command from being executed, by mistake, in the terminal? I know that bash, for instance, has aliases. Is there a way to use them?
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What is the actual sequence of steps during rm -Rf on a very large folder?
Let's say I run rm -Rf on a very large folder with many files and folders of different size, user permissions etc.
I would like to know, does the rm command first accumulate the list of files to ...
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Debian: cannot remove symlink in /sys/: operation not permitted
I ran some commands without completely understanding them while trying to get screen brightness working and now I'm stuck with a nasty symlink in '/sys/class/backlight/asus_laptop' that I am trying to ...
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rm to remove a dir, any symlinks, AND symlink destinations? [duplicate]
I have two directories: /all/origins/ & /all/links/.
Everything in links/ points individually to something in origins/, but not everything in origins/ is linked in links/. (Squares, rectangles &...
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unlink delete files which are not links [duplicate]
I created a hard link
$ ln hours.sh hours_link
test it
$ ls -l hours*
-rw-r--r-- 2 me staff 653 Apr 12 2018 hours.sh
-rw-r--r-- 2 me staff 653 Apr 12 2018 hours_link
remove it with unlink
$ ...
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double check remove on a wildcard
I accidentally removed a bunch of files I wasn't supposed to. I would like to implement some kind of safety net in the future to protect my files.
I was hoping that any time I type rm * into the ...
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delete then rename: same filenames different extensions
I have a directory containing thousands of files, each file has a duplicate.
An example:
file1.txt
file1.jpg.txt
file2.txt
file2.jpg.txt
I want to delete all *.txt files, and leave the *.jpg.txt
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Remove files + files from subdirectories in Directory
I would like to remove all files from a directory /data which includes 8 other sub directories.
Is there a command which will recursively clear all subdirectories but not remove the actual folders?
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Empty trash in ubuntu
I'm trying to empty my trash using the UI but it doesn't work. i tried to use this command rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/* but it does not success with messages like rm: cannot remove 'file.txt': Read-...
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Remove files that start with but don't contain
I'm trying to remove a lot of files at once but need to be specific as to not remove any of the files I actually need.
I have a ton of corrupt files that start master- but there are valid files that ...
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Delete directories if they do not have newer files
I want to delete directories only if they have not changed in the last N days. And by changed I mean contain any files that are more recent than N.
I constructed something similar / found this but ...
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Remove files which not named “today.md” [duplicate]
I have the a series of markdown files in the working directory:
$ ls *.md
csv_reader.md egrep.md find.md found_pdfs.md osPathSep_help.md readme.md smtplib_help.md today.md
I want to remove ...
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removing directory [closed]
After motherboard replacement and system upgrade to Mojave my Mac was restored from backup including some macports codes in /opt . Since macports would not work properly I had to rename /opt/local to /...
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How to delete all directories inside a directory except for files, (safely)?
Environment
System: Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon.
Shell: Bash version 4.4.19(1).
Problem
Along with hundreds of testing scenarios, I must have created countless of temporary installation directories ...
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Delete identical files saved as output in a log
I have three files in two folders. The files are named, a.txt, b.txt and c.txt were located in A and B folders. I have used an app Full File Mini Comparer which compares the folder and saves to log to ...
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Using regular expression for rm and ls
QUESTION:
What is happening here and how do I fix it?
PROBLEM:
When I do:
$ls | grep -P "file[1-9]{3}.txt|file[1-9]{2}.txt"
I get:
file11.txt
file12.txt
file13.txt
file14.txt
file15.txt
file16....
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What does this command mean? (IO redirection question) [closed]
I am trying to figure out what this command is doing:
rm OUTPUT/* >> log_${ENV} 2>&1
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Error in deleting files or directories older than 1 day
I am able to delete files or directories older than 1 day using below command
find /u01/Release/* -mtime +1 -exec rm -r {} \;
but why I am getting error in the output of this command:
ls -lrt
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Removing files containing, only, one row? [duplicate]
I have large number of csv files saved within a folder. I would like to, only, delete the csv files that contains one row, how can I do that?
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Is “find /var/log -type f -delete” safe on Debian 9?
I never view or care about files in /var/log/ and want to avoid logrotate wasting my system resources (CPU, RAM, I/O, etc.). Are any regular files in /var/log/ necessary for some core Debian program (...
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How to delete a git repo with submodule from NTFS partition and then git clone it with submodule initialized?
I tried setting my 2 TB hard drive partition into a NTFS file system, per an answer to an earlier question of mine. I moved a heap of my git repos onto it. Some of my repos have submodules, and ...
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How to delete files created between two times?
I have a folder where I backup my databases to and I want to delete all backups created between 11 am and 3 pm and it doesn't matter what day it is -- this is the catch!
I found this command to be ...
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How to remove every file and folder recursively except for a few specific folders?
Having the Busybox ash shell at hand, I wish to cleanup the /opt folder.
Cleanup means to remove every file and folder recursively except for a few exclusion paths that need to be left untouched.
...
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Why does my 'rm' command work fine in terminal on my mac but not from shell script?
I have a directory whose name contains spaces. I need to remove the contents of this particular directory.
I am escaping spaces in the directory name with \ before removing the contents.
The rm ...
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Yet another `rm: cannot remove 'file': Permission denied`
I want to remove the .html file from the /home/user1/html/ directory.
I have tried nearly all of the solutions posted on a myriad of other web sites. Nothing is working.
user1@comp1:~/html$ sudo rm ...
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How to remove parent directory without deleting sub folders?
For Example,
I have 5 directories inside parent directory, I want to delete parent directory without deleting 5 subdirectories.
As of now am doing with below code,
mv parentFolder/* parentFolder/.....
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Delete .pdf files only if .xlsx files in directory have same filename?
I have folders with hundreds of pdf and xls(x) files that were mass exported from legal e-discovery systems. The filenames in these exports correspond to bates # such as ABCD_00000001.pdf, ...
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Delete the oldest files in folder if combined size of folder is more than 10G
The following syntax will remove the files under hive folder:
/usr/bin/find /var/log/hive -type f -print -delete
I am trying to do the following:
Remove the oldest files under /var/log/hive only if ...
