General :: Delete The Folders And Make Space To Continue
Aug 29, 2010i have been copying dvd's and now i do not have enough room in my temporary folder,but i cannot find out how to delete the folders and make space to continue
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Feb 15, 2011I am administrating a lab in a university and every semester we need to delete all the home folders of the accounts for the next semester. I would like to make a bash script that does this automatically and having trouble with it. Note that I am writing my very first bash script. What I need to do is make a script to delete the following:
Delete everything in /home/$exp$num/$dir
when "exp" could be either "rt", "ic" or "sp".
"num" could run from 1(single digit) to 45 and dir is "profile" and "work".
This is what I tried to write:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
cd /home
for exp in "rt ic sp"
do
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What seems to be the problem is the reading of "$exp$num" as a joint expression.
General :: Delete All The .svn Folders?
May 25, 2010I have the following structure:
/.svn
/bla/.svn
/hello/.svn
/bla/bla/bla/.svn
... etc
I want to delete all the .svn folders. How do I do it?It's NOT:
rm -rf .svn
In windows you use the /s trigger. How do you do it linux?
General :: How To Delete Unwanted Folders
Jul 22, 2010I noticed after uninstalling Firefox that the folder is still listed in the files/etc ... how do I delete these files?
/etc/firefox
/etc/firefox-3.0
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General :: How To Delete All Empty Folders
Jun 7, 2010I just had a bad experience with a server, and now i have a 17GB lost+found. It appears a lot of the stuff in there are folders which are empty. Since those really serve no purpose as far as recovering data from what I can tell, is there a slick way to delete just the empty folders from my /data/lost+found folder, leaving me with just the stuff I truly need to look through?
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General :: Shell Script To Delete Folders And Files Dynamically And Recursively?
Jun 7, 2010I have an archive directory that needs to be cleaned up once per quarter. The top level (/data/archive/*) directory names change daily, as well as the subdirectories and the filenames (the application names everything according to date). Also, there are two top level directories, bin and incoming, that we can't touch. I want to write a shell script that loops through the 15 or 20 top level directories and deletes all files and subdirectories older than 3 days (skipping the bin and incoming folders). Can someone get me started on a script? I am kinda new to shell scripting.
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Nov 13, 2010Found what takes space but not sure what to delete here is the output of df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9.2G 157M 8.6G 2% /
/dev/sda5 9.4G 9.4G 20K 100% /usr
/dev/sda6 213G 213G 20K 100% /var
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General :: Find Folders With ONLY One Specific File In And Delete File And Folde
Oct 21, 2009Many folders within a subdirectory some of which have lots of data in and some of which have only one specific file called produkt.fil inside.I need a command to find and delete those folders that contain ONLY the file produkt.fil - if other files exist (doesnt matter what they are) then they should be left alone. Note: produkt.fil exists in all of the folders always.
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May 7, 2010I have a Dell Netbook which came with Ubuntu Linux 8.3 (I think) in 2008. The drive is a SSD 3gb unit and the drive was nearly full when I received it. There was only 758mb free on the drive and I wondered why they would sell a computer with so little free space on it. When the updates was installed the drive was full. Is there a way to retrieve some space on the drive without deleting programs which came with the computer? I have tried ordering a new drive online without getting one, including Dell itself. In Windows you can delete old files which will free up some space and is wondering if the same thing is possible under Linux?
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Jun 8, 2011I have some confusion about one of my partition and the space it is taking. df -h output is given below;
# df -h
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/dev/mapper/ddf1_ADVDTARTINGp1
494G 18G 452G 4% /
[code]....
above information is showing that /var/lib/mysql partition total size is 379 GB and it is 68% used. However when I execute command du -sh /var/lib/mysql it shows following output.
# du -sh /var/lib/mysql
45G /var/lib/mysql
Now I want to know what files are taking space to make the partition 68% used. I want to list down all files in that partition with size.
Ubuntu :: Delete All Files/folders Except Those Specified?
Jul 26, 2011Although I've been using Ubuntu for a while, I haven't really done any scripting thus far,but now find myself needing to do (what I thought was) some fairly simple stuff.However, despite much searching, I have been unable to find a solution to my problem.I need a script which will delete all of the files/folders from a directory except those I specify. From the command line, I am able to use:rm -r !(constant|system|*.msh|)
which works fine, deleting everything except the 'constant' and 'system' folders (and everything in them) and any files ending in '.msh'. I have tried to put this into a script file, specifying to use the bash shell, and escaping the required characters, but I just get the message 'cannot find !(constant|*.msh)'.I have read that using the find command may be a better way of doing it, but so far I have not been able to make the command work in the way which I need (I have easily been able to delete ALL the files/folders in the directory!).
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Mar 28, 2009I have an FTP server on my network (currently ran on IIS). When I connect with Nautilus to FTP and try to delete folder (files delete works) I get error.I tried Filezilla and Gnome-Commander as clients - they cat delete directories just fine. I tried to solve this problem for months because I like the convenience of having my FTP bookmarked in Nautilus and use it from there.Today I finally found a reason for Nautilus not being able deletedirectories, but I can't find a solution to that. I've checked FTP logs and saw that all working ftp-clients are performing RMD on directory name only, while Nautilus always prepends directory name by / symbol. So, let's say I'm trying to delete folder call "Test"Filezilla and Gnome-Commander are logged as doing RMD on "Test", but Nautilus was logged as doing RMD on "/Test" and server replied that "/Test" folder doesn't exist
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Ubuntu :: Cannot Rename Or Delete Files / Folders With Foreign Characters
May 12, 2010Can't rename, move or delete files or folders that have a foreign character.
Code:
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