Questions tagged [rm]
rm is the command to remove files
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sudo rm -rf /* is not working
Using an online Arch-linux emulator, I ran sudo rm -rf /* and this is what I got:
root@localhost:~# sudo rm -rf /*
_(blicking)
And I got a lot of "rm: operation not permitted"
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Delete all *mp3 files without confirmation and inside all folders /sub
I am now in the "upload" folder (centos 7)
I want the files *mp3 which is inside this folder and the folders inside it
without being constantly "y" Hit
I use this code, but I have ...
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Is it possible to protect a directory from being deleted without it making read-only?
There are some directories that I want to have edit access to, but I don't want to accidentally rm it. I have accidentally ran rm -rf * in the wrong directories before and want to safe proof against ...
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Delete all files without user permissions
I have a prompt that asks me to delete all the files in a directory that the owner (u) can't r, w, nor x, in one command.
I tried this command:
find data -type f ! -perm -u=rwx -exec rm -f {} \;
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Suggest a safe command to delete files after a script used it
I have this script where I would like to add a line that, after the concatenation, safely deletes the *.dump files, because they are big and I have no space for the concatenated files and the dump ...
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How can I remove everything except last n bytes from the file in Linux?
I've a Tomcat server where logs are stored as catalina.out. It's a pretty huge file and causes troubles a lot of times.
Because of it taking too much space, other servers have to stop involunatarily. ...
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Is there a way to know who executed a command?
we are using redhat and we would to know if there is a way to show the session id or username who executes a rm command line, recently, someone from other teams delete a .jar file and me and my team ...
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Accidentally deleted /dev directory
I've accidentally performed
sudo rm -fr /dev
Will I suffer from data loss or any side effects?
I've rebooted the system and my data seems ok, but I'm afraid there is hidden or non-obvious loss of ...
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time difference of rm single tar file between large and small size
If I have a file data.tar and one is 1 MB in size versus one that is 10 GB in size versus one that is 10.0 TB in size (yes 10 terabytes is correct) why is there a time difference in doing a rm on ...
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can't delete folders on samba share
I am dealing with a really weird issue I can't identify the cause of. I have a samba share mounted using autofs in Rocky 9.2 with the flags -fstype=cifs,rw,nounix,file_mode=0700,dir_mode=0700,...
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rm deleting files very slowly
I've written the below script in Bash to delete files given a specific numeric range:
# *** Declare variables ***
SRC="${1}"
START="${2}"
END="${3}"
# *** Delete frame ...
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Is it safe to remove a directory that has a mixture of symbolic links and subdirectories?
I have a directory, dir. Inside dir, there are symlinks and regular subdirectories. I want to remove dir and create a symlink for dir to point to another directory.
If I simply do rm -rf dir, I ...
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rm command contradictory options -i and -f
I learned that -i option is interactive mode and -f option is force model in rm command.
When I tried both options
rm -if test.txt
it did not ask me and just deleted it which means -f option overrode ...
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Extremely slow file deletion on NFS drive
I have a linux machine (OpenSuse), and there is a mount point on a network drive (NFS). In a folder containing log files (frequently modified), the file deletions (just the rm command) is extremely ...
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Is there a way to monitor the progress of removing files on Linux? [duplicate]
I have a directory with millions of files, and I'm deleting it by rm -rf diretory_with_millions_of_files. I can see the change in the usage of inode counts on the filesystem. But is there a more ...
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Remove entire folder when grep find no files with a match inside the folder
I have thousands of folders with a single html file in each folder. I want to remove the entire folder if grep find no match to example.com in the html file.
I know how to remove the non matching file....
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Can't delete folder: rm: cannot remove: Directory not empty
I'm trying to delete a folder I once created and nothing happens when you try to remove the file in the file explorer.
I tried to remove the file per command line:
rm -rf folder-path/
This is where i ...
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How do I delete files with the same names in multiple sub-folders from the command line?
I have a folder called simulations, which contains 101 subfolders. These sub-folders are named posterior_predictive_sim_1 to posterior_predictive_sim_101.
Each subfolder contains five files: seq.nex, ...
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Delete parent folder while keeping contents
I have a structure that is as follow:
parentdir/nesteddir/content/files
within parentdir are hundreds of subdirectories with differnet names (I am just using an example of 'nesteddir'
I will cd into ...
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Find files and delete x from total of the list
I want to delete all log files in some directory, but not the latest 3.
I've done:
DATA_PATH=$(gadmin config get System.DataRoot)
ZK_PATH=${DATA_PATH}/zk/version-2
log_count=$(ls -ltrh ${ZK_PATH} | ...
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Why does removing a directory first remove its subdirectories recursively?
Why must deleting dir1, which contains dir2, which in turn contains dir3, be a "recursive" operation and not just "simple" (destroying dir1 as-is, regardless of its contents)?
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How to remove similar folder from multiple locations in terminal
I have a folder 'reg_standard' nested within 68 different folders that I want to remove. The path to this folder looks something like:
/Volumes/.../sub-???/run_?.feat/reg_standard
where '?' is a ...
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Unable to delete root-owned file under /tmp
The file and folder are owned by root but I did sudo chmod ugo+rw on both, which I confirmed with ls -l.
Still, I cannot remove the file as normal user.
❯ ls -ld /tmp /tmp/perm
drwxrwxrwt 46 root root ...
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Trashed files still remain in .Trash/1000/files after trash-empty
I use trash-cli to put files on trashcan from command-line.
According to the documentation the command trash-empty remove definitly all files from the trashcan. So, I did it, but I find the files ...
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Control the way git prints file names so that they can be passed to rm?
When I print a file from git using the command, there are edge cases:
git diff --no-renames --name-only
Edge case 1: spaces
(added --diff-filter=D for illustrative purposes)
# format 1: unquoted
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how to kill java process forcefully and remove directory which is used by that process
I have one use case where I am killing a java process with pkill java, and after that, I want to remove certain directories. I have used rm -rf /pathtofolder but it gives:
rm: cannot remove '/...
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Does rm -rf /mnt/ delete files in subfolders if you do not have write access to /mnt/?
I accidentally ended up with rm -rf some-text-folder-I-had-already-deleted-previously.txt /mnt/ because of arrow up into bash history.
My screen flashed with lots of subfolders that I actually do have ...
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Removing directories with spaces in their directory paths
I'm on macOS. I have many directories at paths that looks like this:
./FirstName SecondName/A Multi Word Title/Contents/Index/files
I want to remove ALL the Index directories and their contents. I ...
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What's the current status of the "sudo rm -rf /" UEFI-bricking bug?
There used to be a bug several years ago where rm -rf'ing your system, due to mounted efivars, actually bricked the motherboard due to shoddy uefi boards. What's the modern day status of that? Is that ...
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Error while removing file (Function not implemented)
I get the following error trying to remove a file:
$ rm 22621.525.220925-0207.ni_release_svc_refresh_CLIENTENTERPRISEEVAL_OEMRET_x64FRE_en-us.iso ...
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In Bash, how can I rm files against a wildcard while supplying more than one exception?
I have the following list of files:
main.acn
main.acr
main.alg
main.aux
main.glg
main.glo
main.gls
main.ist
main.lof
main.log
main.lot
main.nlo
main.out
main.pdf
main.tex
main.toc
I want to rm all ...
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very strange dir/file, what is?
Today on backup rsync give me an error about a dir($HOME.cache/doc/by-app)
I have checked it and I see this
First I go to the dir
cd $HOME.cache/doc$ cd by-app/
I do ls and..
ls
/bin/ls: error while ...
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How to make "yes" the default of rm -i
I want to review a long list of files from being deleted, they are not very important so there is no problem if I accidentally delete some of them, but still I want to save some.
How can I call rm -i ....
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Delete huge directory that causes all commands to hang
How do I delete this large directory?
stat session/
File: ‘session/’
Size: 321540096 Blocks: 628040 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: 903h/2307d Inode: 11149319 Links: 2
Access: ...
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Why does `rm writeprotectedfile <<< ""` delete the file?
The default behaviour of the GNU rm command when asked to delete write-protected files is to interactively ask whether the user wants to delete each of the files. This is quite inconvenient in many ...
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`find` removed top-level directory as well as contents
I ran
/bin/find /home/user/myfiles \! -name '.htaccess' -exec rm -r {} \;
and it removed everything in myfiles and the myfiles directory itself if .htaccess doesn't exist.
What I was expecting is ...
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What is the correct way of moving home?
I am trying to move /home onto a dedicated partition.
What I already did:
created the partition
created a filesystem
mounted the partition into a temporary folder
rsynched all files into the ...
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how to remove file 0= file which has srw permission
How can I remove below file?
srwxrwxrwx 1 patroh root 0 Aug 8 16:11 0=
The user patroh is myself. The rm command won't work - it doesn't give any error when I execute rm 0.
I am not sure ...
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Will `rm -rf` continue deleting if it can't delete something in the middle?
Consider a dir garbage containing many files and directories.
If I run rm -rf garbage, but some files or directories within garbage are busy by the OS/NFS/etc., so rm -rf will fail for them. Will it ...
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How can I delete a directory called ";"(semicolon)? [duplicate]
On a shared machine somehow a directory ; (with a lot of stuff in it) was created.
I only have shell access to this machine and so I can't use any GUI File explorer to delete that file.
rm -rf ;
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find + how to delete files that exists only on specific folder [closed]
to delete files on under folder we can use the following approach with find
find /home -type f -delete
but how to delete recursive only the files that exists under temp folder ?
lets say we have the ...
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Delete files with a particular string in the filename but not other strings
I have some directories with a very large number of files in them. I am looking to prune these directories by deleting files that have a particular string in them but don't have certain other strings ...
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Simple way to delete files absolutely [duplicate]
I want to actually delete files in linux, as opposed to just erasing the representation of a file, with the command rm, for example, actually deleting the file literally, and as a basic good security ...
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Delete a file called '.env'$'\r'
I have no idea what created this file - I guess a terrible shell script.
It is called '.env'$'\r'
I have tried various versions of rm, and the technique of opening the direcory with vim ./, selecting ...
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Erasing the boot disk on an external hard drive
I recently had my original computer stolen so I bought a second hand one and created a boot disk for Bullseye using dd in a linux VM on the original windows OS.
This worked perfectly fine and bullseye ...
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How to display a prompt and prevent execution against basic but dangerous commands like mv or rm
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Whenever I use mv (or commands of similar nature) I want my shell to prompt me something like "Hey, you used mv. Sorry but do it again using mv -i".
I'd like to know the reasonable ...
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Deleting Files in a Directory that contain a single quote (') character
I Have files as such:
"contrail's",
hello
, "larch's"...etc
How could I delete files that contain a single quote (') character(ex: "kibosh's" ).
I was thinking in using ...
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Recovering deleted directory with rm -rf /* (no sudo)
I am (was) running a Minecraft server in my second computer (Debian).
I was deleting some files in the server and i did rm -rf /* instead of rm -rf *, which deleted everything that did not require ...
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why rmdir can work well when delete cgroup directory but rm -rf can not?
Here is a cgroup tree. Root node is demo and it has only one child
demo/
├── cgroup.clone_children
├── cgroup.procs
├── cgroup.sane_behavior
├── child
│ ├── cgroup.clone_children
│ ├── cgroup....
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I've copied a directory with `cp -as` and now I'm terrified to `rm -rf` the created directory as it might delete the original
I've copied a directory with cp -as /media/user/dir symlinks and now I'm terrified to rm -rf symlinks as it might delete files in /media/user/dir
What is the safe way to only delete the directory ...
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