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# 1  
Old 12-26-2007
To Know this find and delete will work ???..
All,

I have a question .

I have a directoy which have permision like

drwxrwxr-x 5 root cusr 8192 Dec 5 12:50 test

I dont have write permision to delete . inside the directory i am having many files . with permision like

$cd test
$ll
-rw-r----- 1 int intex 7705 Sep 4 15:59 xxxx


I want to know even though i am not having permision to delete the file will my find and delete work , ie will it delete the file

find test -name "xxxx" -exec rm -f -r 2> /dev/null "{}" ";"

Please let me know . I am in tedious situation.

Thanks,
Arun
# 2  
Old 12-26-2007
Further more if i have like this . Will it work

drwxrwxrwx 5 root cusr 8192 Dec 5 12:50 test

inside the directory i am having many files . with permision like

$cd test
$ll
-rw-r----- 1 int intex 7705 Sep 4 15:59 xxxx


find /test -name "xxxx" -exec rm -f -r 2> /dev/null "{}" ";"

Thanks,
Arun
# 3  
Old 12-26-2007
Have you tried "chown"?
Smilie Arun, there might be one of a couple of problems which would cause the command to fail.

To begin with, do you have access to the root account and its password?

If the answer to this is "yes", then you might want to change file ownership with the "chown" command. For an arbitrary file called "junk.txt", the sequence might run like this:

root@home/steve$$ ls -all
-rwxr-xr-x steve users 2048 12-07-07 junk.txt

root@home/steve$$ chown arun junk.txt
root@home/steve$$ ls -all
-rwxr-xr-x arun users 2048 12-07-07 junk.txt

As "arun", you may not be able to delete my file named "junk.txt", unless you are logged in as the file owner or as root, even if the file is in a directory where you have full read/write/execute permissions.

Does this help?
Last edited by Annatar; 12-26-2007 at 11:20 AM.. Reason: incorrect command result listing
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# 4  
Old 12-27-2007
Correction
Quote:
As "arun", you may not be able to delete my file named "junk.txt", unless you are logged in as the file owner or as root, even if the file is in a directory where you have full read/write/execute permissions.
if I am in a directory where I have full read/write/execute permissions, I should be able to delete the file even if I am not owner of that file.
Code:
rkumar@bdc4reteaix1w: /home/rkumar/unix_forum >touch file2del
rkumar@bdc4reteaix1w: /home/rkumar/unix_forum >ls -l file2del
-rw-r--r--   1 rkumar   dev               0 Dec 27 09:42 file2del
rkumar@bdc4reteaix1w: /home/rkumar/unix_forum >ls -ld
drwxrwxrwx   2 rkumar   dev            4096 Dec 27 09:42 .
rkumar@bdc4reteaix1w: /home/rkumar/unix_forum >su - oretail
oretail's Password:
[YOU HAVE NEW MAIL]
oretail@bdc4reteaix1w: /home/oretail >id
uid=205(oretail) gid=205(dev) groups=201(osdba),202(osoper),203(oinstall)
oretail@bdc4reteaix1w: /home/oretail >cd ~rkumar/unix_forum
oretail@bdc4reteaix1w: /home/rkumar/unix_forum >ls -l file2del
-rw-r--r--   1 rkumar   dev               0 Dec 27 09:42 file2del
oretail@bdc4reteaix1w: /home/rkumar/unix_forum >ls -ld
drwxrwxrwx   2 rkumar   dev            4096 Dec 27 09:42 .
oretail@bdc4reteaix1w: /home/rkumar/unix_forum >rm file2del
rm: Remove file2del? y
oretail@bdc4reteaix1w: /home/rkumar/unix_forum >ls -l file2del
ls: 0653-341 The file file2del does not exist.

# 5  
Old 12-27-2007
Thank you Anatar ..

But even if i am not the owner of the directory , if i am having W and X permision i am able to delete .

So please confirm that even though if i am not a woner of the file /Directory , but if the file /Directory has W and X permision can i delete that file /Directory .

Thanks,
Arun
 
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