Questions relating to the Linux remove command (rm)
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LaTeX filepaths in Ubuntu
I'm sorry, this is quite a specific and esoteric question, but I thought if anyone could help...
Well, anyway, last night I used ls to look at a directory and noticed some junk hidden files I didn't ...
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Changing rm -r autocomplete behaviour for directories with whitespace in their name
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.
If I try to auto-complete to delete a directory with spaces in the name, it doesn't work.
Say my directory is called "some spacey directory". If I type rm -r some and ...
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Copying from mount share drive to local folder through script
This is my first time trying to work with Linux Scripts so this may be something obvious.
Here is what I am trying to do:
Remove all contents from local folder - rm /home/user/Documents/Exercise/
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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 '('
Roughly ...
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“sudo rm” fails to delete files
My main account is called "u1204" and I have some files created with another account called "dad":
$ find . -user dad -print
./Documents/Zim Notes/.zim/state.conf
./Documents/Zim Notes ...
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rm: cannot remove `/run/user/root/gvfs': Is a directory
Whenever I type a command which is similar to sudo apt-get install or anything like this I get this kind of error:
$ sudo su
# exit
exit
rm: cannot remove `/run/user/root/gvfs': Is a directory
How ...
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Unable to “rm” a file named “() - .” due to “No such file or directory”
A script I wrote named a file "() - ." according to Filezilla. Filezilla was unable to delete it from the server so I tried to "rm "() - ." from inside the containing folder and received "rm: cannot ...
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How can I prevent accidental execution of the rm -r *command?
Occasionally I use command to delete some files. For example, the name might start with 'a', so I'll delete with the command rm -r a*, but I don't want to remove some other directory by accident. How ...
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I cannot delete files from root's Trash
I deleted some large files from nautilus launched as sudo. They still show in /home/.Trash-0/files/<foldername>
when I type sudo sh -c "du -h /home | grep -P '[0-9]G\t'" but when I type sudo rm ...
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Can't delete file even as root
I tried to delete a directory by running sudo rm -rf google-chrome. This gave no output message but the directory wasn't deleted. There is only one file remaining, google-chrome/default/User\ ...
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How do I remove a folder?
I'm a new user and Im trying to remove a specific folder. I am using sudo rm /path/ but its not working. What is the correct command to use?
It is a file catolog I am attempting to remove but im ...
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“Ghost” output from locate?
I deleted some files, but they seem to still exist. Can anyone please explain the output of this:
m@work:~$ locate cfx.css | xargs rm
m@work:~$ locate cfx.css
/var/www/wfox/hbr.co.nz/cfx/a/c/cfx.css
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Difference between sudo rm -rf and rm -vf?
Recently I have seen one issue with a cache problem. The problem comes with broken hash and that could be fixed with
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
and
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
But I ...
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How to forcefully delete files (system files) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to delete/edit files from readonly filesystem
i have a memory card (MS-DOS file system I believe) which I want to delete ALL the files in it.
Even though I use sudo ...
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How is rm command different from the delete button?
I read from a book where it says, the command rm deletes the inode and not the file. Which means if I delete with the rm command, then it cannot be restored.
I'm very new to Ubuntu environment. Now ...
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Command to delete all files from folders matching name recursivly?
I have my base folder (let's call it base).
I have a bunch of folders inside, scattered at various depths within these folders are cache folders.
I want to delete all files from within the cache ...
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Accidentally removed all Wine files
I was finding that if any way to remove the installed windows program in ubuntu. then i found a forum here http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#uninstall_app.
then i type in terminal
cd $HOME
rm -rf .wine
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Duplicate /media directory entries
I installed Ubuntu 64-bit 12.04 over Ubuntu 32-bit 32-bit on the same partitions. In my /media directory I have what appear to be duplicate entries. I had found a similar issue on an Ubuntu discussion ...
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“rm” doesn't accept internal command as a paramter
Why doesn't this work?
rm $(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri | awk '{gsub("file://","");print $0}')
rm: cannot remove ...
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how to restore boot folder?
No laughing!
I just did sudo rm -vr /boot/*. Is there a way to restore the content?
Just to clarify why I would do this: I have a SD-card with a boot-partition mounted at /media/boot that I wanted ...
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Removing a tree
CODE EDIT
So now that I'm off work I can do a little coding in my free time.
The way that I think I want this to work is take a tarball (what I
would normally extract to a folder anyway) and compare ...
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how to download “rtsp” flow
I could download a conference from this link (rtsp://real2.infn.it/webcast/2012-esploratori-invisibile/esploratori-dell-invisibile.rm).
How can I do it?
Thank you previuosly..
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Is there any faster way to remove a directory than “rm -rf”?
I have a folder that has many files and "rm -rf" takes a lot of time to complete. Is there any faster way to remove a directory and it's contents (subdirs, etc)?
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File wont delete from trash even after sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/
I've tried using sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/files/ and even going myself as root doing the same, and recreating the folder its still there, it was from a pendrive at one point and I deleted it ...
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Is there a way to do a ' ls -R | grep “aname”* | rm; to remove multiple files in multiple directory
I have installed (compiled) emerald. The command make uninstall didn't work (there is no makefile as it is just a script). So I decided to remove the file manually. But there were a lot of files.
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rm -i alias not working with sudo as root
I have noticed in all my Ubuntu servers the alias rm -i is ignored when you run sudo rm * as root. Is there something in sudo that is causing this behavior? I know you don't need to use sudo when you ...
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How to remove files modified between particular dates?
As in the topic: I would like to remove files in a directory that have been modified in a particular date range. How can I do this ?
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Can't delete/edit files on my pendrive
I'm trying to delete the .Trash-1000 from my pen drive, but with
sudo rm -rf .Trash-1000/
I got
rm: cannot remove `.Trash-1000/expunged/2660089871/apps.log': Read-only file system
(one line of ...
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How to find the pid of the process which has deleted a file?
I am working on a project related to VM migration. Sometimes the VM image will disappear and I just want to know who the culprit is. I tried strace on suspicious processes but to no avail.
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How can I make rm stop asking me for permission?
On my server rm always asks me for permission (even though I'm root) when I run it, on my desktop it does not. Like so:
$ rm mod_wsgi-3.3.tar.gz
rm: remove regular file `mod_wsgi-3.3.tar.gz'?
How ...
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How to prevent a file under user folder to be deleted?
How can I make some file impossible to be deleted by user even if it is under his/her home folder?
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Removing folder named ~
This is the output of ls -l
ls -l
total 53484
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-02-10 05:59 ~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54313810 2011-02-13 05:09 jobs.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 384035 2011-02-15 ...
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Repairing after a rm -rf /*
I accidentally ran rm -rf /* on my Ubuntu 10.10 and canceled the command quickly then. Although I was not sudo but a lot of my files were deleted. The system has become less responsive and I am not ...
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Pipe results of locate into rm
I tried running
locate *.orig | xargs rm
but it said No such file or directory
I've seen ways to do it with find but locate returns the full path to the object so it should be possible
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Is there a significant disadvantage to aliasing rm to do something else?
I've been bitten a few times recently with rming things I shouldn't have - for example, forgetting to ulink symlinks, not rm them.
I'm thinking of writing a small bash script to simply move the ...
