General :: Deleting Everything: # Rm -rf /
Aug 23, 2010Just wondering, what happens when you delete every single file on a running Linux system?
# rm -rf /
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General :: Deleting Several Lines In Vim?
Mar 5, 2011I've a big text, and I would like to delete several lines in vim. I was thinking in doing that with marks, but I can't do it. Below it's an example text and I want to delete from <FROM HERE> to <TO HERE>. How can I do that?
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General :: Deleting Another User's Diretories From Own?
Apr 12, 2010I am a non-root user, and have made a directory into which other users in my group can write. The directory is setgid, so files and directories within it have the same group.I can delete files placed into this directory, but if a user creates a subdirectory with files in it, I can't seem to delete those. Is there something special I can do (other than, say, bothering the user in question or the sysadmin about it) to get rid of this subdirectory?
EDIT: Inevitably, of course, someone asks "why?"The shared folder in question is a mercurial repository. We can't use a shared-account ssh-key-based server for this like mercurial-server, and we can't just host it externally for various reasons. But that part works fine.We use Redmine for project management, but it does not yet read the repo index for file contents - it reads the working directory. So the working directory must be kept up-to-datecrontab has been disabled by the sysadmin, so that's out. So I naïvely put a changeset hook in the shared repo that performed an "hg update". This seemed to work fine initially, until, of course, someone pushed a commit with a new directory. While I had vague thoughts of trying to make a setuid script for the hook, I'll probably just consider safer avenues.
General :: Windows 7 - After Deleting Partitions?
May 16, 2011I have a laptop that I was dual booting with Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I used the MSFT disk manager to delete the partitions. I made sure my windows live cd was working, which it was, before doing this. But now, when I boot my computer, it won't run the cd. All I get is
error: no such partition. and then a command prompt: grub rescue>
I made sure my boot priority was set to boot from the CD first.
General :: Deleting Iframes From Files
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Nov 25, 2010I'm writing a Perl script which performs linux commands.I have a directory with a load of files.
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General :: Deleting Files By Date
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Code:find . -name "*.zip" -execdir unzip '{}' ; -deleteWhat happened was that find continued to extract the files as intended, but then it deletednot only the zip-archives but also the newly extracted files.it only affected a portion of the files that I had already backed up.I don't have enough space on my hard drive to extract all the files without simultaneously removing any data and I don't have the energy to go through all the directories one by one manually. Surely there must be a better way. Is there a way to fix the code snippet above so that it works as I intended or is there a better way of doing this?
General :: Preventing Deleting Of Directory?
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grub rescue>
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General :: Vista Not Booting After Deleting Partition
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Apr 7, 2011i have a problem about deleting a line from a text file which contains two specific patterns. i am using "sed -i "/$name/ d" peop.txt" but i must use one more variable which is surname.
"
burak:ak:3242:2342:dsa@a.com
gokhan:an:432:4234:da@a.com
"
and this is the code of text file. and the second question when i use "/$name/ d" it deletes not only the names which are macthing with $name but also all words that contain $name. so how can i fix these problems_?
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fdisk /dev/sdc1, then "p" showed that there were 4 partitions. So I deleted them one by one. "n" gave me a new partition. "t" I used 87 because I will be using it on windows. Then "w" to write everything.
mkfs -t ntfs /dev/sdc1 - all went well.
fsck -f -y /dev/sdc1 - all went well
Then I took the removed the drive and plugged into Windows only to find that the "optional" is still there. It actually creates a virtual drive with the "optional" software. So I tried it over again. I tried fdisk only to see that the partitions were back (as if they were never removed). I removed them again, and used primary partition as linux and wrote to disk. As a hunch, I checked permissions. Can't remember what it said, but I did change them.
chmod 777 /dev/sdc1
Then in a last hope of desperation, before coming to work today, I decided to dd the drive.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc1 bs=4k conv=notrunc
Is it possible that the "optional" stuff is actually hard coded onto a chip, or something inside the drive and I may never get rid of it?
General :: Deleting Lines From Text Files
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Dec 6, 2010I'm trying to write a script to do the following:
I have a text file that contains many lines that look like this:
I'm trying to make my script read this text file, find the string sequence "QIEN", and delete everything from this sequence backwards (including "QIEN") so that the above lines look something like this:
I'm aware that grep is good to do a regular find-and-delete as follows:
Code:
But this will delete everything on the lines that contain the string sequence "QIEN".
General :: GRUB Hanging After Deleting CentOS?
Nov 3, 2010I had dual boot Win Xp and CentOs Linux. I have small harddisk and needed more space, so I removed CentOS linux with partition manager and rebooted. Now I can not boot my XP. All I can see is GRUB prompt. Keyboard do not respond except CTRL ALT DEL. I know I have to fixmbr. But I can not boot from my bootable XP CD. I can boot from CentOS linux DVD and enter into linux rescue mode. From that I typed "grub" entered into grub. Then I tried
root(hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader --force +1
boot.
But it gives me some error. Can I boot my XP from CentOS DVD rescue mode?
General :: Repair Filesystem After Deleting RAID
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So what's the recovery procedure, since I can't edit #/etc/fstab, permission denied.
#fdisk -l
shows all other partitions.
Not much familiar with fsck/e2fsck, yet like to give it a try.
General :: How To Delete All Files In Directory Without Deleting?
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I then get the following error:
Is there any way to get emacs to delete the directory and stop its whining?
General :: Windows - Deleting A Partition Also Removes Two Other / Sort It?
Aug 4, 2011I have a hard drive with the following layout:
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General :: Deleting Files On USB - Input / Output Error
May 4, 2009[root@localhost media]# ls UMESH
[root@localhost media]# cd UMESH/
[root@localhost UMESH]# ll
ls: cannot access ejb: Input/output error
total 0 d? ejb
[root@localhost UMESH]# rm -rf ejb
rm: cannot remove 'ejb': Input/output error
[root@localhost UMESH]# ll
ls: cannot access ejb: Input/output error
total 0 d? ejb
[root@localhost UMESH]#
The privileges for root for UMESH are as below:
[root@localhost media]# ll
total 4
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[root@localhost media]#
Also I can't even paste a file in the USB.