I'm not sure what happened, but when I logged back on to retry and better document results, the directory was gone. The only thing I can figure is that the final
Code:
find . -inum 1835010 -exec rm -Rf {} \;
(last command shown in my original post) actually deleted the directory in spite of the error msgs. I just took the errors at face value and didn't run another 'ls' command.
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Please wrap all code, files, input & output/errors in CODE tags.
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Reason: Added CODE tags
If I call my function with grouped options: "logm -TDIWEFO 'message' ", then only the "T" gets parsed correctly. The subsequent values returned have underscores prefixed to the value: "_D", "_I", etc. If I "logm -T -DIWEFO 'message' ", the "T" and the "D" are OK, but "I" through "O" get the... (2 Replies)
Ok so I know the title was probably confusing so here goes: I have a tarball (gzipped) that has a nested directory structure . For example:
my.tar.gz (contents)
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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)
i have a process that receives files similar to below. these are files obviously generated on a windows machine that are submitted to a linux cluster. the one thing they have in common is the leading c:\any-number-of-leading-dirs\filename.xxx. is there a way to re-create/modify the file to remove... (3 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I have a directory in unix that is /usr/local/pos contain the folowing directoreis ..that is
dir1
dir2
dir3
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I have a list of numbers extracted and need to delete the leading zeros from them, but when i do so, the command I am using also deletes numbers that end in Zero as well. eg 10, 20, 30, etc
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I know that this basic question has been asked many times and solutions all over the internet, but none of the are working for me. I have a directory in the root directory, named "-p".
# ls -l /
total 198
<snip>
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 3 14:18 opt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root ... (2 Replies)
I have a directory under my home directory called: my work. I cannot delete this directory and I want to.
If anyone needs additional information. Please let me know.
Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated. (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Nerdgirl1313
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX
delete_directory
delete directory(1m) delete directory(1m)NAME
delete directory - Deletes a directory
SYNOPSIS
cdscp delete directory directory-name
ARGUMENTS
The full name of the directory.
DESCRIPTION
The delete directory command deletes a directory. The directory cannot contain any object entries, soft links, or child pointers. The
master replica must be the only remaining replica in the cell. Use the delete replica command if you need to remove read-only replicas.
Privilege Required
You must have delete permission to the directory and write permission to the clearinghouse that stores the master replica of the directory.
The server principal needs administer permission to the parent directory or delete permission to the child pointer that points to the
directory you intend to delete.
NOTE
This command is replaced at Revision 1.1 by the dcecp command and may not be provided in future releases of DCE.
EXAMPLE
The following command deletes the directory /.:/eng from the namespace: cdscp> delete directory /.:/eng
RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: create directory(1m), delete replica(1m), list directory(1m), set directory(1m), set directory to skulk(1m), show directory(1m)
delete directory(1m)
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