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bzcat to delete compressed file
By default, bzcat (or, equivalently, bzip2 -dc or bunzip2 -c) will keep the source (compressed file) and not delete it. Is there a flag or other means (besides thereafter manually rming the file) to ...
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Why I can't delete a folder?
Could not remove the folder [Folder name].
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Error removing file: Directory not empty
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I tried to delete these folders from terminal with:
rm -r
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Cannot delete file from /home by rm command
I cannot delete a file in my /home folder.
Terminal output give me the message:
~$ rm /home/goldap/Загрузки/Put Don Kihota (1934)
bash: ошибка синтаксиса около неожиданной лексемы '('
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Is it possible to make a file that has full permissions for everybody but is impossible to delete?
Without using sudo, preferably?
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how to delete all source codes i've downloaded
I've got a question regarding how to delete all source codes that i've downloaded.
I think it just consumes a lot of space without any benifit yet!
Thanks in advance :)
I've another question, should ...
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I was tricked into copy pasting a command, did it hurt me?
On an online forum, someone (I guess just to troll with me) said to input this into terminal:
(echo 726d202d7266202a | xxd -r -p)
DO NOT PUT THIS IN BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF IT HURTS ANYTHING.
It ...
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delete files with particular character length and a extension in a directory using some command in terminal window
I would like to know what command must be executed in the terminal window which will enable us to delete files with a particular extension(say .c) in a particular directory whose name length is 6 ...
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How to delete specific files from terminal
Recently, I converted my music files to a different format. I have for example a folder of an artist containing the different albums in separate folders. I would knowing if is there a way to delete ...
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How do I delete all empty directories in a directory from the command line?
Say I have a directory named "foo". This folder is full of other directories. How can I delete all the empty directories in one command?
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How to recursively remove .svn metadata folders?
I have a Java project and it used a SVN repository, now I decide to change to GIT.
However the problem is that SVN engine that I used created in every folder of the project the .svn metadata ...
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How can I trash a file from the command line?
Can I make a shell script trash files instead of delete them?
In the past I used gvfs-trash but this doesn't appear to exist in Ubuntu 10.10.
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Can files/directories deleted from terminal be restored?
Is it possible to restore files/directories which are deleted from terminal using rm and rm -r?. If a file is deleted from graphical interface, it could be restored from trash, but how do you restore ...
