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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Deleting unamed directories Post 41748 by miredale on Monday 13th of October 2003 11:52:44 AM
Old 10-13-2003
Hammer & Screwdriver removing direcotries with ACSII charactors
If you want to remove files with ASCII charactors you would do the following command : rm -i *
This will search through the directory and ask you if you want to delete the selected file, you just reply with a Y or N

I guess if you want to delete directories you could try rm -fri *

but test this is a test directory stucture to begin with just in case.

hope it works
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

showmount

SHOWMOUNT(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      SHOWMOUNT(8)

NAME

       showmount - show mount information for an NFS server

SYNOPSIS

       showmount [ -adehv ] [ --all ] [ --directories ] [ --exports ] [ --help ] [ --version ] [ host ]

DESCRIPTION

       showmount  queries  the	mount  daemon on a remote host for information about the state of the NFS server on that machine.  With no options
       showmount lists the set of clients who are mounting from that host.  The output from showmount is designed to appear as though it were pro-
       cessed through ``sort -u''.

OPTIONS

       -a or --all
	      List  both  the client hostname or IP address and mounted directory in host:dir format. This info should not be considered reliable.
	      See the notes on rmtab in rpc.mountd(8).

       -d or --directories
	      List only the directories mounted by some client.

       -e or --exports
	      Show the NFS server's export list.

       -h or --help
	      Provide a short help summary.

       -v or --version
	      Report the current version number of the program.

       --no-headers
	      Suppress the descriptive headings from the output.

SEE ALSO

       rpc.mountd(8), rpc.nfsd(8)

BUGS

       The completeness and accuracy of the information that showmount displays varies according to the NFS server's implementation.

       Because showmount sorts and uniqs the output, it is impossible to determine from the output whether a client is mounting the same directory
       more than once.

AUTHOR

       Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>

								  6 October 1993						      SHOWMOUNT(8)
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