Questions tagged [rm]
rm is the command to remove files
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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 am very new to the linux command line so i do know how to pass a space with \ but I ...
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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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What does rm do specifically? [duplicate]
Rationale: I have been looking into options for recovery of accidentally deleted files on linux systems without a GUI. During my research I realized that there are many posts explaining how to use rm, ...
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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 ...
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how to remove all files exclude specific files [duplicate]
Under /var/log/hive we have a lot of log files
we want to remove all files exclude the following that should be not removed
hivemetastore.log
hiveserver2-report.json.tmp
hivemetastore-report.json....
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quote files matched by grep
grep's man page reads
"grep -lZ outputs a zero byte after each file name instead of the usual newline"
But in my case there are files in the output that still need quotes. In order for this to work:
...
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what are the chances of recovery from rm /* [duplicate]
I accidentally run $ rm -rf /* instead of $ rm -rf ./*
Can I somehow recover home folder.
Where does all my file goes.
Could you tell me some of the softwares or tools to recover just the Home folder....
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Does Ctrl-C (SIGINT) prevent output to be shown even if there were processes trying to output it
I had a bash script which did the wrong thing. So I pressed Ctrl-C to stop it.
Is now the output I currently see on my terminal all the output produced by the processes that have run. Are does Ctrl-...
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How can I harden bash scripts against causing harm when changed in the future?
So, I deleted my home folder (or, more precisely, all files I had write access to). What happened is that I had
build="build"
...
rm -rf "${build}/"*
...
<do other things with $build>
in a ...
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Is there a way to delete all files/directories created by program?
A program I installed splattered files and directories in different places. I'm having to manually remove these files and directories. I know you can delete files and directories created by a user ...
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delete all files ending with certain string
I have a directory containing around 15K images, with x number of sequences
scene1_000000.png
scene1_000001.png
scene1_000002.png
scene1_000003.png
scene1_000004.png
scene1_000005.png
scene1_000006....
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Making alias of rm command [duplicate]
Making alias of rm command so that when rm command is executed it will first copy file to /tmp/recycle_bin and then remove the file. But I'm getting issue in the process.
Steps performed by me:
I ...
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Which file first get deleted first when deleting via rm -f with a glob pattern?
I've a folder with thousands of files with this pattern:
YYYYMMDD_HH24MISS_4DIGITSEQUENCE.
Example: 20180626_210123_0001.
Now for example while I'm deleting via
rm -f *20180626_1* command its ...
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alternative options to rm -f
I'd like to run a command line:
cd ~/www/tmp/; rm -P 2*
But I get an error if there are no files starting with 2.
You would think I would want to use -f, however:
-f Attempt to remove the ...
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Cannot rm corrupt directory
CentOS6
I am logged in as root. It is a virtual machine running on a Windows 10 host in virtualbox as a vagrant machine.
I tried
chmod -R 777 /home/thomas/WWW
chown -R root:root /home/thomas/WWW
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Linux Keeps Operating after rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
I have done my search but couldn't find any answer.
After executing "rm --no-preserve-root -rf /", bash has told me things like:
rm: cannot remove /proc/*: Operation not permitted
...
rm: cannot ...
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Deleting old directory
I am trying to add a way to remove backups older than 3 days ago in my script.
See below a stripped down simplified version, which just leaves the removal part.
It was my understanding that ${...
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Remove all but latest version - no timestamp
I have a large collection of files that look like this:
Some Name da-1234567-1.py
Some Name da-1234567-2.py
Some Name da-1234567-4.py
Other Name di-5678912-3.py
Other Name di-5678912-4.py
Other Name ...
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Difference between rm my-symlink and rm my-symlink/
Just wanted to know why if I use rm -rf my-symlink it deletes the symbolic link only but rm -rf my-symlink/ deletes the files within the linked directory and leaves the symbolic link alone?
