Hi,
I am having hard time to delete a directory:
$ rm -r testoxdwdw
rm: testoxdwdw non-existent
$ rmdir testoxdwdw
rmdir: testoxdwdw: No such file or directory
$ rm -rf testoxdwdw
Thanks! (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a problem on Solaris 10 regarding deletion of files
when I try to recursively delete the directory /opt/Tivoli as root, I get the following error message:
rm: Unable to remove directory Tivoli/lcf/dat/1/no-del/bin/solaris2/TME: File exists
rm: Unable to remove directory... (4 Replies)
I've run into a issue where I can not delete directories under a user directory.
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Dear All,
I have problem at T5220 server, when I enter at my server as oracle user and make directory ex. directory test then I will delete directory test with command : rm -rf, what happenned...?? that directory cannot deleted.
What's wrong with my server...?
Note: my server T5220 with... (3 Replies)
To find the whole size of a particular directory i use "du -sk /dirname".. but after finding the direcory's size how do i make conditions like if the size of the dir is more than 1 GB i hav to delete some of the files inside the dir (0 Replies)
Hi
My directory structure is as below.
dir1, dir2, dir3
I have the list of files to be deleted in the below path as below.
/staging/retain_for_2years/Cleanup/log $ ls -lrt
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 256 Mar 01 16:15 01-MAR-2015_SPDBS2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root ... (2 Replies)
Can we force delete the directories despite having files in it? Because I need to delete multiple directories which has multiple files. As of now, I'm deleting the files before deleting the directory. Can't we delete the directory with files? (3 Replies)
amigos
necesito dejar en un directorio solo los archivos del dia anterio, como puedo hacer eso con una shell
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rmdir
rmdir(2) System Calls Manual rmdir(2)NAME
rmdir() - remove a directory file
SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION
The system call removes a directory file whose name is given by path. The directory must be empty (except for the files and before it can
be removed.
RETURN VALUE
returns the following values:
Successful completion.
Failure.
is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
If fails, is set to one of the following values.
[EACCES] A component of the path prefix denies search permission.
[EACCES] Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link to be removed.
[EACCES] The process does not have read/write access permission to the parent directory.
[EBUSY] The directory to be removed is the mount point for a mounted file system.
[EBUSY] The path is the current working directory.
[EEXIST] The named directory is not empty. It contains files other than and
[EFAULT] path points outside the process's allocated address space. The reliable detection of this error is implementation-
dependent.
[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the path name.
[ENAMETOOLONG] The length of the specified path name exceeds bytes, or the length of a component of the path name exceeds bytes
while is in effect.
[ENOENT] The named file does not exist.
[ENOTDIR] A component of the path is not a directory.
[EPERM] The directory containing the directory to be removed has the sticky bit set and neither the containing directory nor
the directory to be removed are owned by the effective user ID.
[EROFS] The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system.
AUTHOR
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley and HP.
SEE ALSO mkdir(2), unlink(2), remove(3C), privileges(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE rmdir(2)