# /UNIX.org file deleting is safer or not Post: 302838653

8 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Deleting contents of a UNIX File

Hi ALL, Can anyone help me out. I have unix file, I need to delete the contents of the file. Can any one let me know the command to do this. The file has to be there, but the contents should be deleted. thanks Manas

2. What is on Your Mind?

Is M$ safer than UN*X(-LIKE)??

I know that you already know the answer to the question. It just springed in my mind after what happened yesterday. I was getting some books off of Amazon.com, since they are cheeper than bookstore, and my mother said something that made me laugh 'till I couldn't breathe. I have a Debian Lenny...

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Deleting a file from REMOTE Unix Server

Hi All, I have a requirement where i need to remove a file from Remote system. Can any one suggest me how to do this? My requirement is, i need to archive the file in a separate system. If the remore system is having files older than 7 years, then i need to delete that files from the remote...

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed/awk help to match list of patterns and remove from org file

Hi, From the pattern mentioned below remove lines based on pattern range. Conditions 1 Look For all lines starting with ALTER TABLE and Ending with ; and contains the word MOVE.I wanto to remove these lines from the file sample below. Note : The above pattern list could be found in...

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Deleting a file in Windows drive from Unix script

Objective ******* I was trying to develop a script that moves files from one folder to another in Windows drive from a Unix script. I got ftp account created for those windows folders. I know that for moving a file from Unix server to Windows server we use scp command, but is there a command...

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Deleting a pattern in UNIX without deleting the entire line

Hi I have a file: r58778.3|SOURCES={KEY=f665931a...,fw,221-705}|ERRORS={16_1:T,30_1:T,56_1:C,57_1:T,59_1:A,101_1:A,115:-,158_1:C,186_1:A,204:-,271_1:T,305:-,350_1:C,368_1:G,442_1:C,472_1:G,477_1:A}|SOURCE_1="Contig_1092402550638"(f665931a359e36cea0976db191ff60ff09cc816e) I want to retain...

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Deleting files using UNIX

Hi All , I am using the below if condition to delete files . if then if ; then log_err "Trigger File ${LINKTRIGGER} does not exist!" fi log_msg "Deleting the Linktrigger" rm -v ${LANDINGDIR}/${LINKTRIGGER}.* else if ; then log_err "Trigger File ${TRGFILE} does not exist!" echo...

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Why is editing a file by renaming the new one safer?

Hello: I've been reading about ways to edit files from the command line, and I've found two websites which state that the following is the safest way to edit a file: command original > new mv new originalThat is, renaming the newer file to the previous one. This is what the websites I mentioned...

LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

mic-livecd-iso-to-disk

MIC-LIVECD-ISO-TO-DISK(1)				      General Commands Manual					 MIC-LIVECD-ISO-TO-DISK(1)

NAME

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk - Convert a livecd image to a live USB image then write to a USB disk or partition

SYNOPSIS

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk [--reset-mbr] [--noverify] [--overlay-size-mb <size>] [--home-size-mb <size>] [--unencrypted-home] <isopath>
       [usbstick device]

       <isopath> is your livecd image path name, [usbstick device] is optional, if not provided, it will detect automatically and ask you to
       select.

DESCRIPTION

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk can convert a livecd image to a live USB image and write it to a USB disk or partition, it is different from mic-
       image-writer which is just a safer dd with progress bar.

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk can detect all the removable USB disks and let you select one of them, if you didn't insert any USB disk, it will
       ask you to insert until a USB disk is available, it can decide if your USB disk need to be formated and if your USB disk has an appropriate
       partition for this livecd image, all the operations are interactive and have warnings f they will damage your old data on your USB disk.

       mic-image-manager has a GUI tool for it.

OPTIONS

       --reset-mbr     Set MBR on your USB disk

       --noverify      Don't verify your livecd image

       --overlay-size-mb      Specify overlay size, the default size is 64 MB

       --home-size-mb	      Specify home size, the default is 0

EXAMPLES

       Write a Molib live image to your USB disk:

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk your-2.1-final.img

EXIT STATUS

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk returns  a  zero	exist  status  if it succeeds, otherwise return non-zero and print error message.

AUTHOR

       Yi Yang, Anas Nashif, Jianfeng Ding

SEE ALSO

       mic-image-creator(1), mic-convertor(1), mic-chroot(1), mic-image-writer(1), mic-image-manager(1)

perl v5.12.3							    2011-05-31						 MIC-LIVECD-ISO-TO-DISK(1)