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How to remove directory of a particular user (1 Reply)
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Hello my friends,
I have a directory called
log_old
when I try to delete it, it tells me no such file or directory.
Then I tried to run this command:
ls -lb
It tells me the directory name, it is: log_old1\177
!!
I tried to remove it using inode, using this... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Mohannad
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
Discussion started by: zivsegal
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4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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)
Discussion started by: zivsegal
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
What's the best way to delete everything in a directory, but not the directory itself, without using shell wildcards? (9 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
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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)
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9. Solaris
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)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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)
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