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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers To Know this find and delete will work ???.. Post 302153703 by arunkumar_mca on Wednesday 26th of December 2007 07:38:55 AM
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
 

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asadmin-delete-domain(1AS)					   User Commands					asadmin-delete-domain(1AS)

NAME
asadmin-delete-domain, delete-domain - deletes the givendomain SYNOPSIS
delete-domain [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--domaindir install_dir/domains] domain_name delete-domain deletes the specified domain. The domain must already exist and must be stopped. This command is supported in local mode only. OPTIONS
--domaindir directory where the domain is to be deleted. If specified, path must be accessible in the filesystem. If not speci- fied, the domain in the default install_dir/domains directory is deleted. --terse indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding human-friendly sentences and favoring well- formatted data for consumption by a script. Default is false. --echo setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output. Default is false. OPERANDS
domain_name name of the domain. Must be a unique name. Example 1: Using delete-domain asadmin> delete-domain sampleDomain deleted domain sampleDomain successfully Where: the sampleDomain domain is deleted. EXIT STATUS
0 command executed successfully 1 error in executing the command asadmin-create-domain(1AS), asadmin-start-domain(1AS), asadmin-stop-domain(1AS), asadmin-list-domains(1AS) J2EE 1.4 SDK March 2004 asadmin-delete-domain(1AS)
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