As a wild guess, I would say that instead of using the command:
you need to use the command:
but, without seeing what you tried, what error messages you received, knowing whether or not the directory you're trying to remove is empty, knowing the permissions of the directory to be removed and the permissions of its parent directory and the effective user and group IDs you are using when you try to remove that directory; any guess is just wild speculation.
Hi,
I accidentally deleted a big directory with all its sub-directories and bunch of source code files which I have been developing for about 2 years... What will I do now, how can I retrieve my files, directory hierarchy back ???
If anyone, please HELP ! ! ! ... (4 Replies)
Hello Gurus,
I want to delete only empty files (files with 0 bytes) at once from the local directory. Rightnow I need to go through all the files one by one manually and check the empty files before deleting them. Is there any unix command that finds and deletes empty files in a directory?... (5 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I want to know wheather it is possible to delete directory not files,
Example:
In one directory there are 10 dirs and 100 files but my req is to delete only dirs not file
Wheather it is possible ? (13 Replies)
I know someone will probably laugh at this question, I probably knew the answer many years ago when I was doing this full time but here goes.....
I have a directory that has many files and sub-directories in it, RMDIR will not delete a directory that is not empty so what is the command to... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I'm trying to work on a script to delete files older then 31 day's in certain directories. Now, that works, but in one directory there are 3 other maps which contains files that can be deleted but one map which contains files that can't be deleted.
My current command is: find... (6 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I have a directory in unix that is /usr/local/pos contain the folowing directoreis ..that is
dir1
dir2
dir3
now I want to delete only dir2 please advise how to remove the directory dir 2 ..that is rm command and how to use it , and second if I want to zip the dir3 please... (1 Reply)
As i am working in unix environment so i have an logs that is created by my application at the following location that is
/opt/app/glac/current/servers/ops/logs
inside the logs directory there are different kinds of logs(that is the file having extension as .log ) have been created... (1 Reply)
I asked this question last month in Stack Exchange (linux - delete directory with leading hyphen - Server Fault) and none of the answers supplied worked.
I have somehow created a directory with a leading hyphen and cannot get rid of it.
# ls -li | grep p
2621441 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: edstevens
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LEARN ABOUT V7
rm
RM(1) General Commands Manual RM(1)NAME
rm, rmdir - remove (unlink) files
SYNOPSIS
rm [ -fri ] file ...
rmdir dir ...
DESCRIPTION
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 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.
Rmdir removes entries for the named directories, which must be empty.
SEE ALSO unlink(2)DIAGNOSTICS
Generally self-explanatory. It is forbidden to remove the file `..' merely to avoid the antisocial consequences of inadvertently doing
something like `rm -r .*'.
RM(1)