hi, i am on aix. i used smitty to remove a user..
but then found that its directory still exists....
so i have to remove the directory manually...
am i doing it the right way? (2 Replies)
Hello, somehow a directory called -r was created on one of my servers and I can't remove is using either rm or rmdir. Is there a way to remove this directory? Thank you.
-David (2 Replies)
What is the best way to completely remove dir with it's content ???
rmdir deletes only EMPTY dirs as i know.
The man page of remove function says "remove() deletes a name from the file system." Can it remove any dir recursively ??? :rolleyes: (7 Replies)
Hi,
I need to delete an empty directory in a temp directory except "dir5" (keep everything that is not empty).
Plese advise.
Here is an example of my directory.
/dir/temp/
dir1 - delete if this is empty
dir2 - delete if this is empty
dir3 - delete if this is empty
dir4 - delete if this... (7 Replies)
I can remove blank lines at end of file using following code
for files in `ls * 2>/dev/null`
do
sed -e :a -e '/^\n*$/N;/\n$/ba' $files > newfile
mv newfile $files
done
How can I change above code, so that it recursively executes that code for all files under a directory? (6 Replies)
Hi,
I want to remove a directory recursively except the inside directories calles .SYNC (designsync dirs) I am looking for something like:
\rm -rf < find . * | grep -v .SYNC
The find works ok but I do not know how to redirect it.
Please help.
Regards,
Ziv:rolleyes: (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to remove a directory recursively except the inside directories calles .SYNC (designsync dirs) I am looking for something like:
\rm -rf < find . * | grep -v .SYNC
The find works ok but I do not know how to redirect it.
Please help.
Regards,
Ziv (3 Replies)
By Mistake i created a directory named "-lrt" in one of my working directories and now i am not able to delete it , please suggest hw to delete this directory now ?
Thanks in advance. (1 Reply)
How to remove directory of a particular user (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: pspriyanka
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
rmdir
RMDIR(1) General Commands Manual RMDIR(1)NAME
rmdir, rm - remove (unlink) directories or files
SYNOPSIS
rmdir dir ...
rm [ -f ] [ -r ] [ -i ] [ - ] file ...
DESCRIPTION
Rmdir removes entries for the named directories, which must be empty.
Rm removes the entries for one or more files from a directory. If an entry was the last link to the file, the file is destroyed. Removal
of a file requires write permission in its directory, but neither read nor write permission on the file itself.
If a file has no write permission and the standard input is a terminal, its permissions are printed and a line is read from the standard
input. If that line begins with `y' the file is deleted, otherwise the file remains. No questions are asked and no errors are reported
when the -f (force) option is given.
If a designated file is a directory, an error comment is printed unless the optional argument -r has been used. In that case, rm recur-
sively deletes the entire contents of the specified directory, and the directory itself.
If the -i (interactive) option is in effect, rm asks whether to delete each file, and, under -r, whether to examine each directory.
The null option - indicates that all the arguments following it are to be treated as file names. This allows the specification of file
names starting with a minus.
SEE ALSO rm(1), unlink(2), rmdir(2)4.2 Berkeley Distribution April 29, 1985 RMDIR(1)