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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting not del a file not affecting other permissions Post 302592736 by sunny231 on Tuesday 24th of January 2012 05:13:53 PM
Old 01-24-2012
not del a file not affecting other permissions

i was faced by a question from a friend. i found it very tricky. all my months of learning unix i never can figure it out still. heres the question he faced me with. wondering if you all can help me figure a solution.

ill let him know the forums helped me out Smilie


What command would you use to make sure that you cannot easily delete a file
called backup (which you own) without affecting other permissions?
 

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DELLOFIG(3)						      MBK PHYSICAL FUNCTIONS						       DELLOFIG(3)

NAME
dellofig - delete and free a logical figure ORIGIN
This software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM developed by the ASIM team at LIP6 laboratory of Universite Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France. Web : http://asim.lip6.fr/recherche/alliance/ E-mail : alliance-users@asim.lip6.fr SYNOPSYS
#include "mlo.h" int dellofig(figname) char *figname; PARAMETER
figname Name of the figure to be deleted DESCRIPTION
dellofig deletes the figure called figname from the list of logical figure in memory. All the lists of elements belonging to the figure are also deleted and freed. RETURN VALUE
dellofig returns 1 if the figure was delete, and 0 if no figure called figname was present in memory. EXAMPLE
#include "mlo.h" void delete_na2_y() { if (dellofig("na2_y")) (void)fputs("deleted na2_y successfully", stdout); else (void)fputs("na2_y not present in ram !", stdout); } SEE ALSO
mbk(1), lofig(3), addlofig(3), getlofig(3), loadlofig(3), savelofig(3), flattenlofig(3), rflattenlofig(3). BUG REPORT
This tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory. We need your feedback to improve documentation and tools. ASIM
/LIP6 October 1, 1997 DELLOFIG(3)
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