Ubuntu :: Only Remove File / Folder If It's There
Oct 27, 2010
This is probably a very simple question and answer, so here goes... Doing the basic:
Code:
rm -fv -R "FILE1" "FILE2" "FILE3" "FILE4" "FOLDER" "FILE_WHATEVER"
...works just fine, but I would like to know if there is a way to only remove if the files are actually there. Currently, I know of this format, which works just fine:
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...however, it seems to only work one file/folder at a time. Is there a way to modify it: I tried this, but it didn't seem to work:
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Feb 25, 2011
how to delete a file or folder via apt-get remove but my written any rates and stops also tried rm and the file name again failed some sort of ideas otherwise I'm with Nokia n900
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May 20, 2011
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I've looked in Nautilus's preferences to see if this is some new behaviour that I can revert back to, but could find nothing there.
I'm of course using the Classic desktop with bottom panel being the taskbar. If you know how I can rectify this, please let me know, as the times I would want to create a file or folder launcher without the usual hassle would be rare, but I am constantly dragging stuff from one folder to another, and it would be a real pain to have to line up source and destination folders each time.
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Feb 13, 2011
this is posable but am trying to do this "Create folder from a filename and move the file into the folder" i have 500000+ file's i need to do with is there a easy way?I really don't want to download them all make/move them with filemonkey just to re-upload them
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Jul 15, 2010
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How do I remove a folder that has a lock on it. In permissions it states that root has locked the folder and I am not the owner and can not delete it.
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I am trying to move a folder from my desktop to Trash and I keep getting an Error "Permission denied"
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Dec 1, 2010
When i want copy a file or folder in some system folder like sbin,Etc.show me error about privilage but when I'm in console i use su command for become admin and i can copy my file or folder.in other operation system like windows user can copy anything,i want know for direct copy my folder in linux without console what should i do? i must join my user name in root group?
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I am running backintime and I keep getting an error: "backintime cant remove folder new_snapshot" when I am backing up to an external hard drive. The hard drive is ntfs if that matters.
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I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 with an lxde interface installed on it. I cannot, for the life of me, remember how to get that dang home folder off of my desktop.
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Sep 28, 2010
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Mar 28, 2011
I been using linux for a while, but I havent had the time to really learn it. Something Id like to get more familiar with is bash so here is a simple example of something I would like to do:
I have a directory full of files. For each file in the directory create a new subdirectory with each files name.
I tried this:
#im already in this directory
aaa=./*
for a in $aaa
do mkdir $a
done
One of the problems is that there are spaces () and - in the filenames so I get many subfolders with names like "-" which i don't want.
I tried stuff like:
aaa=./*
for a in $aaa
do mkdir "'"$a"'"
done
This of course also did not work.
Additional I tried just creating a folder with the name of one of the files and I got this:
mkdir: cannot create directory `(audio) - R56339.EXE': File exists
Well yeah a file exsists with that name, but I want to create a folder- why is there a conflict?
Just to be clear here are the contents of this folder:
~/Desktop/LAB/Media/Drivers - (Image Deployment)/Optiplex_GX260/XP> ls
(audio) - R56339.EXE (NIC-Onboard-Intel) - R54402.EXE
(Modem-datafax-V92) - R54403.EXE OEM_Applications
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Mar 6, 2011
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Nov 10, 2010
Well I have another question believe it or not this is my first message I have tried to send with kontact here is the error I get.
Sending failed: smpt.[url]... The message will stat in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder. The following transport was used: [url]... Well here are my mail settings
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192.168.0.1 would be my router. I am not sure about the #53 thing I can receive mail. I tried to look to see if something was blocking port 25 My firewall on opensuse is disabled. I could not find port configuration on my router (DI-624)
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i tried to run lame install. on debian lenny amd64.
sudo sh /home/levi/Desktop/lame-3.98.4/install.sh
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folders are
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debian
Dll
doc
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mv: cannot move ..... to ... No such file or directory. which i at least FEEL is certainly not the case.
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Jan 24, 2010
I have a backup folder which I need to prune and I've been trying to do a find and destroy action on files in this folder which have not been modified for more than 30 days. I figure if no users complain that their files have been missing for more than 30 days, it's safe to delete them from this folder.
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