Delete all *mp3 files without confirmation and inside all folders /sub I am now in the "upload" folder (centos 7) I want the files *mp3 which is inside this folder and the folders inside it without being constantly "y" Hit I use this code, but I have to go into each folder and run the …
Delete all files without user permissions I have a prompt that asks me to delete all the files in a directory that the owner (u) can’t r, w, nor x, in one command. I tried this command: find data -type f ! -perm -u=rwx -exec rm -f {} ; … but I think it removes …
Suggest a safe command to delete files after a script used it I have this script where I would like to add a line that, after the concatenation, safely deletes the *.dump files, because they are big and I have no space for the concatenated files and the dump files. jelly is a txt that …
Accidentally deleted /dev directory I’ve accidentally performed sudo rm -fr /dev Will I suffer from data loss or any side effects? I’ve rebooted the system and my data seems ok, but I’m afraid there is hidden or non-obvious loss of data that I simply haven’t found out yet. EDIT: I’ve read this post but didn’t …
Is it safe to remove a directory that has a mixture of symbolic links and subdirectories? I have a directory, dir. Inside dir, there are symlinks and regular subdirectories. I want to remove dir and create a symlink for dir to point to another directory. If I simply do rm -rf dir, I believe this …
rm command contradictory options -i and -f I learned that -i option is interactive mode and -f option is force model in rm command. When I tried both options rm -if test.txt it did not ask me and just deleted it which means -f option overrode -i option. Of course, I would not use options …
Remove entire folder when grep find no files with a match inside the folder I have thousands of folders with a single html file in each folder. I want to remove the entire folder if grep find no match to example.com in the html file. I know how to remove the non matching file. For …
Find files and delete x from total of the list I want to delete all log files in some directory, but not the latest 3. I’ve done: DATA_PATH=$(gadmin config get System.DataRoot) ZK_PATH=${DATA_PATH}/zk/version-2 log_count=$(ls -ltrh ${ZK_PATH} | grep log | wc -l) limit_files=`expr $log_count – 3` echo There is ${log_count} files found in ${ZK_PATH}, ${limit_files} will …
How can I delete non-mp3 files recursively using fish shell? The tree list is like this: /Music |— folder1 |— folder2 |— folder3 | |—- folder3.1 | |—- folder3.2 | —- folder3.3 |— folder4 I had tried the command rm | ls -R | grep -v "*.mp3" Asked By: Leo_2233 || Source You can use …
How do I repair Ubuntu after running the command: sudo rm /* While I was trying to remove files from a SD card from the same directory, I ran sudo rm /* and now Ubuntu isn’t working. When I restarted I get the error: kernel panic attempted to kill init. I’m new to Linux. What …
How to remove similar folder from multiple locations in terminal I have a folder ‘reg_standard’ nested within 68 different folders that I want to remove. The path to this folder looks something like: /Volumes/…/sub-???/run_?.feat/reg_standard where ‘?’ is a stand-in for all the different folders that start with ‘sub’ or ‘run’. For example, I have sub-101, …
Is it possible to recover a deleted directory? I deleted a directory using the command rm -drf file_dev as root. Is it possible to recover this directory with its content somehow? Asked By: sarp || Source Install testdisk, thank me later. Works about 99% of the time.The time that it didn’t is when you got …
Control the way git prints file names so that they can be passed to rm? When I print a file from git using the command, there are edge cases: git diff –no-renames –name-only Edge case 1: spaces (added –diff-filter=D for illustrative purposes) # format 1: unquoted $: touch ‘foo bar.txt’ $: git add ‘foo bar.txt’ …
Cannot delete directories as sudo: Permission Denied I am trying to remove directories with files and getting a permission denied error on Ubuntu 22.04.1. I’ve changed permissions to 777 for the directory and the parent directory but I still get the error. $ sudo rm *.* rm: cannot remove ‘Real Economy v1.5.1-4267-1-5-1-1588544476’: Permission denied rm: …
In Bash, how can I rm files against a wildcard while supplying more than one exception? I have the following list of files: main.acn main.acr main.alg main.aux main.glg main.glo main.gls main.ist main.lof main.log main.lot main.nlo main.out main.pdf main.tex main.toc I want to rm all of the main.* files except for main.tex and main.pdf file. I …
How to make "yes" the default of rm -i I want to review a long list of files from being deleted, they are not very important so there is no problem if I accidentally delete some of them, but still I want to save some. How can I call rm -i ./* and be prompted …
Delete huge directory that causes all commands to hang How do I delete this large directory? stat session/ File: ‘session/’ Size: 321540096 Blocks: 628040 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 903h/2307d Inode: 11149319 Links: 2 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2022-09-29 14:34:40.910894275 +0200 Modify: 2022-09-29 14:35:09.598400050 +0200 Change: 2022-09-29 14:35:09.598400050 …
`find` removed top-level directory as well as contents I ran /bin/find /home/user/myfiles ! -name ‘.htaccess’ -exec rm -r {} ; and it removed everything in myfiles and the myfiles directory itself if .htaccess doesn’t exist. What I was expecting is that it would find and remove files within the directory, except for any .htacess file. …
Home folder contents lost: wrong use of rm? I am using Ubuntu-Mate 20.04 and I have lost most of the contents of my home folder. I think it could be due to using wrongly the “rm” command with sudo, but not sure if it might be something else. I explain: I was trying to delete …
how to remove file 0= file which has srw permission How can I remove below file? srwxrwxrwx 1 patroh root 0 Aug 8 16:11 0= The user patroh is myself. The rm command won’t work – it doesn’t give any error when I execute rm 0. I am not sure how I created this file? …
