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Old 07-17-2012
Problem with deleting .dmp file
Hi, everybody!
I have a big problem. I don't understand Unix, but I work as a system administrator, and sometimes I make some data exports and I have to delete old .dmp files, but today I had a mistake, I wrote rm * 909*
This is a part of my folder contents in unix before deleting
Code:
drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle dba 1024 Sep 15 10:49 .
drwxr-xrwx 6 oracle dba 1024 Dec 6 2010 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 1005568000 Sep 12 08:38 XX_20110909.dmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 81120256 Sep 12 08:42 YY_20110909.dmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 580651008 Sep 14 08:32 XX_20110914.dmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 580096000 Sep 15 10:51 YY_20110915.dmp
-rw------- 1 oracle dba 522096 Nov 5 2010 core
oracle@ZZ-dbux:/oracle/exp/myfolder$ rm * 909*
rm: 909* non-existent

Then I wrote ll command and I found only these rows
Code:
drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle dba 1024 Sep 15 10:49 .
drwxr-xrwx 6 oracle dba 1024 Dec 6 2010 ..

I have no idea what is the role of the last row. What do it?

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Last edited by susan12; 07-23-2012 at 01:23 PM.. Reason: please use code tags
# 2  
Old 07-17-2012
. is a special folder meaning 'current directory'.
.. is a special folder meaning 'previous directory'.

They are hardcoded, and exist everywhere it makes sense for them to do so (.. can't exist in /, of course.)
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# 3  
Old 07-17-2012
@corona:
Quote:
(.. can't exist in /, of course.)
.. is present under root, however .. under root points to the current directory itself. Any specific reason why .. is displayed under root? ( I saw this behavior in RedHat Linux and AIX).
# 4  
Old 07-17-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by susan12
Hi, everybody!
I have a big problem. I don't understand Unix, but I work as a system administrator, and sometimes I make some data exports and I have to delete old .dmp files, but today I had a mistake, I wrote rm * 909*
This is a part of my folder contents in unix before deleting
drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle dba 1024 Sep 15 10:49 .
drwxr-xrwx 6 oracle dba 1024 Dec 6 2010 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 1005568000 Sep 12 08:38 XX_20110909.dmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 81120256 Sep 12 08:42 YY_20110909.dmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 580651008 Sep 14 08:32 XX_20110914.dmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 580096000 Sep 15 10:51 YY_20110915.dmp
-rw------- 1 oracle dba 522096 Nov 5 2010 core
oracle@ZZ-dbux:/oracle/exp/myfolder$ rm * 909*
rm: 909* non-existent

Then I wrote ll command and I found only these rows
drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle dba 1024 Sep 15 10:49 .
drwxr-xrwx 6 oracle dba 1024 Dec 6 2010 ..

I have no idea what is the role of the last row. What do it?
You have deleted all the files in the current directory.
Quote:
rm * 909*
works like this
Quote:
rm *
which deleted all files from current dir and then
Quote:
rm 909*
which didn't found any file in the directory so u got an error message.

Quote:
drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle dba 1024 Sep 15 10:49 .
drwxr-xrwx 6 oracle dba 1024 Dec 6 2010 ..
are the links to present directory (.) and the parent directory (..) which will be available in each and all directories in unix.

Cheers,
Sudeep
# 5  
Old 07-17-2012
Advice:
Until you get used to the commands, use rm -i at the command line and try to match as much of the filename as possible.
The rm -i will prompt you to ask whether you want to delete the each file.

Code:
rm -i *909.dmp

The fact that you accidentally deleted all files in the directory is explained by @sudeep.id above.
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