rm Questions
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rm -r .git
rm -r .git --force
I get the following and there seems to be a never ending supply after I enter 'yes' and move to the next.
override r--r--r-- redacted/staff for .git/objects/95/9008...
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When I do
rm file.txt
or
rm *.txt
I'm prompted for each file, since I didn't specify the -f option to rm.
But when I do this:
find . -type f -name '*.txt' | xargs rm
the files are removed...
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Background
I have a PowerShell script that writes some results into a file.
I want to remove the result file automatically at the start of the script with Remove-Item.
You can remove the result fi...
Onetoone asked 29/7, 2020 at 15:51
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I am trying to remove a directory /path/to/dir using the rm -rf command.
Unfortunately I get the error
rm: cannot remove '/path/to/dir/.nfsdda293a660f276ca0000000a': Device or resource busy
After ...
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I've got a seemingly un-deletable directory in Unix that contains some hidden files with names that start with .panfs. I'm unable to delete it using either of these commands:
rm -R <dir>
rm ...
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I have hundreds of directories and files in one directory.
What is the best way deleting only directories (no matter if the directories have anything in it or not, just delete them all)
Currently...
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Unable to remove .git
I have a git repository, Rift, that I am trying to remove. On attempting to run rm -rf, I get the error: rm: cannot remove 'Rift/.git/objects/pack': Directory not empty.
When ...
Dipetalous asked 16/11, 2020 at 3:40
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I accidentally removed the entire directory of my source code...with a nice rm -r. I know, really bad; but fortunately, I had a git repo in the containing directory. Thus, git has a huge list of un...
Schnurr asked 23/7, 2014 at 13:28
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I did:
git init
git add .
git rm -rf dirname
Looking at other answsers, git reset --hard HEAD, git checkout -f and git reflog did not work, apparently because there is no HEAD to go back to, nor...
Pomander asked 10/3, 2012 at 5:14
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I want to delete all files which have names containing a specific word, e.g. "car".
So far, I came up with this:
find|grep car
How do I pass the output to rm?
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I am trying to delete erroneous emails based on finding the email address in the file via Linux CLI.
I can get the files with
find . | xargs grep -l [email protected]
But I cannot figure out h...
Personate asked 25/12, 2010 at 2:53
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In Linux, how do I remove folders with a certain name which are nested deep in a folder hierarchy?
The following paths are under a folder and I would like to remove all folders named a.
1/2/3/a
...
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When using sudo rm -r, how can I delete all files, with the exception of the following:
textfile.txt
backup.tar.gz
script.php
database.sql
info.txt
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What delete command can be run to remove only files in given directory
NOT directories
NOT sub-directories
NOT files in these sub-directories.
Some files don't have extensions so rm *.*...
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I'm trying to pipe some files from the find command to the interactive remove command, so that I can double check the files I'm removing, but I've run into some trouble.
find -name '#*#' -print0 |...
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rm is to remove item, but what is the parameter -rf do or signify?
Whenever I typed help -rf it printed the entire list of available commands in powershell. What happens if you type rm -rf in powe...
Ragi asked 4/5, 2012 at 6:36
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I'm trying to work out a command which deletes sql files older than 15 days.
The find part is working but not the rm.
rm -f | find -L /usr/www2/bar/htdocs/foo/rsync/httpdocs/db_backups -type f \(...
Dace asked 25/6, 2012 at 14:40
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I've got a bunch of files that end in "-e" that I want to remove.
$ find . -name "*-e" exec rm {} \;
find: exec: unknown primary or operator
Is the regex expanding in some way that messes everyt...
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I would like to delete all the emacs backup (~) files from subfolders.
I am aware that I can cd in every single folder and delete them using rm *~ (e.g. for backup file test.cpp~).
How I can dele...
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I have a Makefile that defines a .PHONY clean target for cleaning up .o files and executables, that target looks like:
...
.PHONY : clean
clean:
rm $(addprefix $(vq_DIR),$(vq_OBJS)) \
$(addprefi...
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When I deploy my server I got errors
server_1 | (node:9) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: /usr/app/packages/server/dist/modules/listing/create/resolvers.d.ts:1
server_1 | (function (exports, requ...
Margarethe asked 3/1, 2019 at 8:21
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I have this command:
rm -rf ~/.quicklock; echo $?
rm -rf ~/.quicklock; echo $?
rm -rf ~/.quicklock; echo $?
rm -rf ~/.quicklock; echo $?
always exits with 0, even if directory does not exist. I ...
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I want to delete files from a specific directory recursively. So, I have used
find . -wholename "*.txt" -delete
We can also delete the files using
rm -rf *.txt
What is the difference between...
Capitalism asked 2/7, 2012 at 10:47
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I see that this question is getting popular.
I answered my own question below.
What says Inian is correct and it helped me to analyze my source code better.
My problem was in the FIND and not in t...
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