using just rm -rf...
But my concern is more I never saw a message that is untrue when it comes to a directory, so what is it? If its a mounting point and you remved lost+found, you are looking for trouble... But if it is try to umount it, it will tell you if it can, in your case it should not be able... which means and explains the not empty, someone removed a file that was still open... so you are to use fuser -cku to kill whatever process his there...
It looks like you have a DELETE/BACKSPACE character stuck on the end of your directory name.
That is...
...octal.
It might be worth a long shot to put your directory inside double quotes...
Just a thought...
EDIT:
IMPORTANT!!! Take heed of vbe's advice too...
Last edited by wisecracker; 12-09-2013 at 10:06 AM..
Reason: See above...
By Mistake i created a directory named "-lrt" in one of my working directories and now i am not able to delete it , please suggest hw to delete this directory now ?
Thanks in advance. (1 Reply)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)