General :: Delete The Parent Directory With Rm -rf?
May 15, 2011
I have a FAT32 SD card with a file on it, that, viewed in Windows the filename consists of a long string of nonsense. Viewed in my Android phone's Linux terminal, ls -a shows nothing in the directory. When I try to delete the parent directory with rm -rf deleteme, it fails with "Directory not empty". When I try to delete/move in Windows 7, it says the filename would be too long and/or Explorer crashes. Windows disk check doesn't find anything wrong. How can I delete this?
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Mar 18, 2010
I am facing a problem in Windows due to a virus called Newfolder.exe which creats files with the same name as it's parent directory and an extension .exe and this happens for every directory in the entire hierarchy in the infected pen drive. The antivirus detects them, but is sucking slow. So I thought this is a good opportunity to use the concepts of the all mighty shell script to remove those as they follow the same pattern. Say my complete path is
Code:
/home/pkd/fol1/
The virus would have created an file with complete paths
Quote:
/home/pkd/fol1.exe
If fol1 has two more directories fol11 and fol12 Then there would be two more .exe(virus created) in the following path
Quote:
/home/pkd/fol11/fol11.exe
/home/pkd/fol12/fol12.exe
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May 26, 2011
I need to create a directory named just like his parent.
Example:
I tried this but because there is "Space Characters" in the name of Parent directory, my script fails.
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Jun 29, 2010
is there a recursive shell or Perl script to delete files with the same name as the parent folder? i wish to include the starting folder name as argument to the script.
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Jul 28, 2010
I am using fedora 13. When I list the root directory with the command: 'ls -la'. I see the parent directory symbol as '..' So, which is the parent directory for root directory?
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Jun 27, 2011
Create the following directories: parent/child
Navigate to child and create a file named child (this is an executable file in my case, not sure if that makes a difference). I need to create two "link to executable" links in the parent.
I had assumed that this would work:
ln -sf ./child ../child1
ln -sf ./child ../child2
But that creates a "link to folder" (./child) in the parent directory. If I change it to:
ln -sf -t.. ./child child1
ln -sf -t.. ./child child2
I get an error, "ln: '../child': cannot overwrite directory".
If I do it from the parent directory (which I cannot do, this is part of a Makefile recipe):
ln -sf ./child/child ./child1
ln -sf ./child/child ./child2
It works. Note that I cannot alter the names of any directories or files. How do I create the links when the current directory is the child?
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Feb 11, 2010
I'm able to use the following to remove the target directory and recursively all of its subdirectories and contents. find '/target/directory/' -type d -name '*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
However, I do not want the target directory to be removed. How can I remove just the files in the target, the subdirectories, and their contents?
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Jun 12, 2010
I have a directory called data. Then I am running a script under the user id 'robot'. robot writes to the data directory and update files inside. The idea is data is open for both me and robot to update.
So I setup the permission and owner group like this
drwxrwxr-x 2 me robot-grp 4096 Jun 11 20:50 data
where both me and robot belongs to the 'robot-grp'. I change the permission and the owner group recursively like the parent directory.
I regularly upload new files into the data directory using rsync. Unfortunately, new files uploaded does not inherit the parent directory's permission as I hope. Instead it looks like this
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 6 Jun 11 20:50 new-file.txt
When robot tries to update new-file.txt, it fails due to lack of file permission.
I'm not sure if setting umask helps. In anycase the new files does not really follow it.
$ umask -S
u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx
I'm often confounded by Unix file permission. Do I even have a right plan? I'm using Debian lenny.
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Aug 3, 2011
I have folder stucture:
|- dir1/
| |- sub1/
|
|- dir2/
|- sub1link -> /dir1/sub1/
and my current working directory is sub1link, is there a quick way to either: change directory to link source parent (i.e something similar to cd .. but take the user to /dir1/ change directory to link source (i.e switch from /dir2/sub1link/ straight to /dir1/sub1
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Oct 15, 2010
I would like to modify Bash Prompt so it does not show the whole $PATH but just the current and parent directory. I am using Ubuntu.
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Sep 13, 2009
I am trying to move all the txt files with a script from multiple directories to one directory, adding the parent directories of the files to the file names.It's a little complicated to explain, but i hope the script i have so far explains what im trying to do better:
Code:
for i in `ls /home/monty/scripting`
do
[code]...
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Jun 8, 2011
I want to change working directory of my script by another script that has been included.
First script:
#!/bin/bash
pwd
source script2
pwd
Sedond script:
cd ..
pwd
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Mar 1, 2010
I've found several posts discussing how to do this in with the terminal, but none exactly fit what I am trying to do. And since I'm still very new, I was hoping for some help.
I have a parent directory called "Music." The subdirectories all start with "artist", some go further as in "artist/album/cd1". So right now the structure varies in the following ways code...
How can I move all the files (or the file types that I choose) to the parent directory "music"?
(By the way, for any who are interested, this is so that I can use an external hd with a PS3. ("playstation 3"--for anyone who was in my predicament searching the threads)
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Feb 18, 2010
I am runnung ubuntu 9.10 desktop edition as a server. I am using a FTP client program to upload some files(index.html, background.png, etc) and everything is fine with that. And currently all my files are in /home/myname/ folder. What I want is whenever I log in with my ubuntu account in the FTP client program, I can actually see the list or contents of the very root directory.
In other word, I can see every folder like /bin, /boot, /etc, /root, so on in the FTP software and I can download it. I don't want to allow to access the parent(or root) directory. Is there any possible way to set up the sutff?
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May 3, 2011
I keep getting a segfault in compiz. I've tried everything! This is from a fresh install without and accelerated drivers (I have ATI)
Quote:
Code:
**Switching to Compiz window management**
/usr/local/bin/compiz-indicator:99: GtkWarning: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent
menu.append(kill)
/usr/local/bin/compiz-indicator:100: GtkWarning: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent
menu.append(start)
[code]....
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Jun 17, 2010
I have a USB drive that I boot using SysLinux. I think select one of several options to complete a task. I do not have access to edit those Kernels. I need to add a option from the Syslinux menu where I can delete all the files from a specific directory.
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Mar 26, 2010
I've mucked through and figured out how to mount a windows share. I can access the folders I was looking for, but the windows share was not what I thought it would be. I was looking for the specific shared folder. Instead I got a root level parent directory that included the folder I wanted, and a couple others.
smbclient -L <ipaddress> gives me a parent directory on the root
First question: Can I mount a specific folder within a share?
Second question: Could somebody define share? I thought it was the specific shared folder, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
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Jul 23, 2010
I created a directory somewhere with permissions rwxrwxr-x so that other users in my group can create files and directories in it.
I do need to be able to delete the contents in this "public" directory, but it seems that while I am able to remove any files in this directory I cannot remove and subdirectories under it.
Is there a way to remove such subdirectories owned by others under a directory owned by me?
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Dec 20, 2010
How to create a directory in samba share in which user can write read files but neither can create more directories tree nor delete any directory.
suppose
[Share]
comment = NRshare
path = /home/share
browseable = yes
[Code].....
I know user cannot delete share directory here. But user can create any number of directories of files in share.
I would like to create directories in share which cannot be added or deleted.
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Feb 9, 2010
I know that rm -i will prompt wether you want to delete each file.But rm -i -r will prompt for each file in each subdirectory recursively. How to make it prompt just for the directory itself, and then delete its contents without asking?How to delete all the files in a directory without deleting . and ..?How to recursively delete all tilde files in a directory?How to GUI file managers delete files to Trash? Where is this "Trash" located? Can you delete to trash in the command line?
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Dec 4, 2010
Here is how i am isolating the 7 latest files
Code:
ls -ltr | tail -7
is there a way to give that negated list to the rm command? or should i be using the find command with an exec {}?
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Sep 28, 2010
I wanna delete a directory with its files and I wanna do that as follows: rm -r dirToDelete Unfortunately, I always get asked for EACH single file if I wanna delete this because it is write protected.... Is there a way to suppress this feedback message so that just the whole directory with its contents disappears?
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Sep 21, 2010
I need a PHP script to delete a line with certain pattern from all filesin a directory. The Directory contain files with extensions .js,.html and.php. Do any body give a working code snippet to Read all files in a directory with above extension and delete that line from the files.
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Feb 3, 2010
I have been trying to write a script that will take a directory, for example /accounts compress it into a .tar file with the filename containing the date of compression, for example accounts030210.tar and then place that file into a directory called /archive
I also want the script to delete files in /archive that are older than 7 days.
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Aug 17, 2010
i use ncftp for some bash script action. how to delete oldest directory and oldest file using ncftp commands?
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Jul 9, 2011
Ubuntu server recently had issues with a disk. fsck seemed to correct everything, but I have one directory that I can't delete, chown, chgrp, chmod, etc.
Here's the listing for the directory
dr-x-wxrwt 2 16709 25134 8192 2020-08-23 22:34 UDLEDATB.DBF
Note the sticky bit is set and the uid is a number that does not appear in /etc/passwd.
Even as root, any attempt to delete, chmod, chown, etc. gives "Operation not permitted".
Since sticky bit on a directory restricts delete to the owner and the owner is invalid, I am stuck. I need to delete this directory.
How can I fix this?
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May 15, 2010
[Code]....
Password: su: /bin/bash:/sbin: No such file or directory i cannot delete that entry from /etc/passwd as i cannot login as root.
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Jan 24, 2010
I'm trying to delete the mythtv directory in my /Home directory. I tried rm and rmdir with sudo but that didn't work and I got an error message that said the directory wasn't empty. Then I tried 'sudo -Rf rmdir mythtv', but I keep getting an invalid option error. -R was for recursive right? Is there someway to remove this directory?
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Mar 16, 2010
I removed a user account from my installation of 9.10 however that does not remove the users home directory, which I also want to do. I emptied the directory as as best I can tell, that is ls returns nothing in the directory. However when I run sudo rmdir josephI getrmdir: failed to remove `joseph': Directory not empty
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Jun 6, 2010
I have downloaded torrent from some chinese tracker. It has ???? and some other symbol charaters in directory name. How to delete that file and directory?
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