I'd assume it's a syntax thing. Can you put in [ code ] blocks (remove the spaces) what you're entering an either an ls or a ls -al output?
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Sorry for double post...but let's say all the files you want to remove end in a .sh format...so, for example:
test.sh
test1.sh
testBAK.sh
You could remove these three files a couple of ways:
(assuming your in the correct working directory)
Code:
rm test*
rm test*sh
rm *sh
The middle would be the best way, in my opinion. The first line would remove anything in the current directory starting with "test" and could potentially remove other files you don't want to remove (i.e. testing.sh). The third line would remove anything ending with "sh" and could, again, remove files you don't mean to touch (i.e. importantfiles.sh).
I am trying to remove a file so that I can delete a directory. Unfortuantely the file looks like this --------.--- and the system is not allowing me to remove the file. System message is
rm: Error: Illegal option -- -
usage: rm file...
I have tried rm * and rm *.* to no avail.
Any... (5 Replies)
I have AIX 5.1
I was wondering how to remove a file name with a space in it Say {tb lsv.csv} ? When I use the {rm} command if you have a space it thinks it is a new file. So it looks for {tb} and {lsv.csv} instead of the name as a whole.
Thanks in advance
Dave
By the way guys and gals the... (5 Replies)
Hi Everyone , have a nice day
what will be the command to be given in certain directory which removes all those files present in that very directory which were last modified one month ago ?
Regards and Waiting (1 Reply)
Hello all,
I'd like to remove files which is returned by the following statement
ls -l arch*.dbf|grep "`date|cut -c5-10`" (cut -c5-10 =Mar 20)
To achive this,I tried the following statments but none worked ..
rm < `ls -l arch*.dbf|grep "`date|cut -c5-10`"`
rm `ls -l arch*.dbf|grep... (8 Replies)
Hi,
It seems someone has created files instead of actually running the commands, as below:
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle92 dba 0 Mar 2 11:19 PRIML_070302.ok
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle92 dba 557 Mar 2 11:20 PRIVH_070302.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle92 dba 0 Mar 12 11:57... (2 Replies)
Dear all,
I want to remove files older than 2 months in the /home/member directory. But except the configuration files (like .bash_profile .config/ .openoffice/ .local/ .kde/ etc..)
I have tried with the command
find . -mtime +60 -wholename './.*' -prune -o -print -exec mv {} \;
but it... (1 Reply)
Hi,
This might seem like a really stupid question but i have created a shell script and at the end of the script i want to remove most of the file i create. So I have:
rm file test sorted
However this does not work for the sorted one. The only way i can get this to work is if i do:
rm... (4 Replies)
i have a directory that have files that contains word "spam", how can i remove all those files which have word spam.
This code help me in searching
find ./ -type f -exec grep -l "spam" {} \;
How i will add removing option with it. If some one have good suggestion regarding searching... (2 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
we are planning to clear the old log files based on the year and i need help on this and i searched in google and i came up with the scripts but i am stuck with this.
(1) wroks fine
How many files exist in based on the extension
find -type f | sed -e 's/.*\.//' | sort | uniq... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am trying to removing the old files which were older than 10 days and same g zipping the files using the shell script.
script was return as follows.
find /jboss7_homes/JBOSS7/SKYLIV??/SKYLIV??_CRM/jboss-eap-7.0/standalone/log -mtime +10 -type f | xargs rm -f
find /cer_skyliv??/log... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: venkat918
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
remove
remove(3C) Standard C Library Functions remove(3C)NAME
remove - remove file
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h>
int remove(const char *path);
DESCRIPTION
The remove() function causes the file or empty directory whose name is the string pointed to by path to be no longer accessible by that
name. A subsequent attempt to open that file using that name will fail, unless the file is created anew.
For files, remove() is identical to unlink(). For directories, remove() is identical to rmdir().
See rmdir(2) and unlink(2) for a detailed list of failure conditions.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, remove() returns 0. Otherwise, it returns -1 and sets errno to indicate an error.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |MT-Safe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO rmdir(2), unlink(2), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 14 Aug 2002 remove(3C)