It looks like you have a DELETE/BACKSPACE character stuck on the end of your directory name.
That is...
...octal.
It might be worth a long shot to put your directory inside double quotes...
Just a thought...
EDIT:
IMPORTANT!!! Take heed of vbe's advice too...
Last edited by wisecracker; 12-09-2013 at 10:06 AM..
Reason: See above...
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 NETBSD
dev_mkdb
DEV_MKDB(8) BSD System Manager's Manual DEV_MKDB(8)NAME
dev_mkdb -- create /dev database
SYNOPSIS
dev_mkdb [-c] [-o database] [directory]
DESCRIPTION
The dev_mkdb command creates a cdbr(3) database in ``/var/run/dev.cdb'' which contains the names of all of the character and block special
files in the specified directory, using the file type and the st_rdev field as the key. If no directory is specified, the ``/dev'' directory
is used.
Keys are a structure containing a mode_t followed by a dev_t, with any padding zero'd out. The former is the type of the file (st_mode &
S_IFMT), the latter is the st_rdev field.
The options are as follows:
-c Create a db(3) database for compatibility with libc versions and statically linked programs from before NetBSD 6.0. The default name
is ``/var/run/dev.db''.
-o database
Put the output databases in the named file.
FILES
/dev Device directory.
/var/run/dev.db Database file.
SEE ALSO ps(1), stat(2), db(3), devname(3), kvm_nlist(3), ttyname(3), kvm_mkdb(8)HISTORY
The dev_mkdb command appeared in 4.4BSD.
BSD June 1, 2012 BSD