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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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)
Discussion started by: edstevens
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
Disclosure: I am very new to Unix, but eager to learn..
I've been tasked with transferring logs to a remote server. After I've verified these logs have transferred correctly I have to remove the source files. The naming scheme is:
/directory/2012.05.01
/directory/2012.05.02
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
hey there folks! I cant figure out, for the life of me, how to procede in removing alll the files in my home directory that are not owned by me.
would i have to list them, but after that what do i do. or is there some way I am not aware of.
my employer heard i could script in unix, but i havent... (3 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi, I'm relatively new to unix, and would like to change the following files in a particular directory. The files have names like:
M10_90_Phcn402_3F.ab1
M10_94_Sput402_3F.ab1
M11_92_Abrg402_3R.ab1
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How would i rmeove all the files in the directory but still keep the directory? (5 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
i want remove all the files from below directory
Available directory
foa/commprog/data
foa/commprog/a
foa/commprog/b
mfoa/commprog/data
mfoa/commprog/a
mfoa/commprog/c
dfoa/commprog/d
There are more folders like this
i want to remove the the file from only /data
i need only... (3 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
How can I removed the directory in the input file?
The script responsible for storing the report in an input file is this:
while }" ]
do
echo "penetration|${penfilename}|${penfilenamedaterange}" >> ${OUT_DIR}/penrpt_emailfile.txt
(( i=i+1 ))
done
For the penfilename:
... (2 Replies)
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8. Filesystems, Disks and Memory
How do you remove a file named '-'? ('rm' does not work) (5 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I need your assistance in removing the oldest file in a directory.
I posted the same thread 3 days back and I got the following answer
ls -1 -t | tail -1 | xargs rm
which is not covering the case when there are directories older than the oldest file.
So, could you please... (2 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
all - I'm trying to delete this directory with no success. This was placed in my folder by a test script I wrote for beginners...
drwxr-xr-x 2 myaddress ssusr 512 Dec 22 16:10 $x+1
Here is the message I receive - I've tried every command possible to remove it:
rmdir:... (7 Replies)
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