1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

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)

2. Solaris

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)

3. Programming

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)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

What's the best way to delete everything in a directory, but not the directory itself, without using shell wildcards? (9 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

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)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to remove directory of a particular user (1 Reply)