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I have a remote machine, where due to some copying error, there is the same folder infinetely nested inside itself.

I am unable to delete it using rm, I don't root access to the remote machine.

Is there anyway we can mitigate this issue?

Remote and local machine are both 14.04.

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  • Without write access you cannot delete or modify the problematic directory. ------ Could you please send ls -ld of it? Oct 30, 2014 at 12:38
  • Question says they can't delete, self-answer says they fixed by deleting o.O
    – Zanna
    Mar 12, 2017 at 20:39

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Due to symbolic link failures, the directories got nested 48 levels deep. I started deleting at level six and then continued outwards.

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