i recently had a problem with the Ubuntu 10.10 installation, so what I did was that I reinstalled 10.04 on another side of the hard disk partition.
Now i want to remove all the files on the Ubuntu 10.10 and also remove the boot screen that comes up asking me to choose.
Recently one of the worm is spread in our network & so many unwated files are getting copied on our ubuntu file server like comment.htt, desktop.ini, winfile.exe Now we have clean that worm from our network but few files are remained on ubuntu server as well as in backup folders and i want to search those files and delete it.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedSo I'm trying to remove or move any files that are not mp3 or ogg from my music folder with the command rm -r *.jpg and I keep getting the message that:rm: cannot remove `*.jpg': No such file or directory{I'm trying to remove jpegs}
View 4 Replies View Relatedhave installed some programs from source and found no trace where and what were installed and I would like to remove those installed files. So I am looking for any script or app to list all orphaned (I mean not related to any installed package) files. I am using Ubuntu Server 9.10 without any fancy X11 stuff so console version is preferred. I have found bitbleach and computer janitor in this forum but they are X11 apps.
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PHP Code:
<?php /**/eval(base64_decode('')); ?>
I tried this but It did not work
PHP Code:
find . -iname *.php* -exec sed -i 's/<?php /**/eval(base64_decode('')); ?> //g' {} ;
I used synaptic package manager to remove tomboy notes and marked it for complete removal. But when I typed "locate tomboy" in the terminal window there were over 50 folders or files listed. Is there a single command I can use to remove all these or do they have to be deleted one by one.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedIm pretty new to linux and Ive hit a wall. I have a folder 'forum'. I need all files and subfolders but I dont want them in forum. I have tried it with the gui, but it wont let me paste them. How do I move all the folder data without moving the folder itself via terminal?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm a relative cli noob, and I screw something up. I want to remove some files by extension only, going down several folders, while leaving everything else be.I think this might be the the right command / syntax, can someone confirm:Code:rm -rf *.exe *.ini *.!ut /path/
View 9 Replies View RelatedDid a fresh install of 10.04 Desktop 86_64 this weekend. One of the first issues I noticed right away was that apt was not function properly. Say for example you install the packages tor and vidalia (assume I'm running everything from root). #apt-get install tor vidalia This command will check and install necessary dependencies, for example 'privoxy'. Now if you decide that you don't want to use privoxy and instead use polipo, you would probably feel inclined to remove privoxy. Well I found that apt-get autoremove, apt-get remove, apt-get purge WILL NOT remove all the files/directories associated with the package. You'll find that after running each of these commands, there will still be directories, scripts, etc. in /etc/init, /etc, and /etc/rc*.d. The only solution I've found to completely removing a package is aptitude purge [package].
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to use my flash drive, but I had files I put on using Ubuntu a few weeks back. Now I can only open them in read only copies and can't remove them, from the flash drive. I also have had some issues with file permissions on the hard drive. I was planning on reinstalling after a backup but now I don't know if that would be logical because the files might all be locked. I wanted to reinstall because I have issues with USB and these file issues.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI really hate this warning when I try to open certain types of files in gedit: (using ubuntu lucid)
Quote:
Do you want to run File.c or display its contents?
"File.c" is an executable text file.
Open in Terminal; Display; Cancel; Run
Is there any way to remove the warning? I have never once clicked anything other than display, and when I'm opening lots of files, having to hold down ALT-D to get rid of these warnings.
I need to remove virus/injections from hindered of files from my web server, infected due to virus/injection.
i am working on simple idea.
1. script ask pattern as input from user OR pattern as input file.
2. script ask the specific path as input OR or list of infected file to be provided to remove pattern from path/list files.
3. find awk sed to remove pattern.
is there any better way ?
I can write bash script.
I was just wondering if there was a package out there to remove all obsolete program configuration files?
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a couple of files which follow this syntax:
*_yyyy-mm-dd_hhhmmm.*
Example:
*_2010-01-01_00h10m.*
*_2010-01-01_01h10m.*
*_2010-01-01_02h10m.*
[Code].....
and delete the others. or maybe move them to a subdirectory to be safe...
Output of my terminal:
linuxx86:110$ rm -rf *
rm: cannot remove `dttscopeger.dir/.nfs00000000012821280000ec25': Device or resource busy
rm: cannot remove `dttscopeger.dir/.nfs00000000015561050000ec26': Device or resource busy
[code]...
I installed Ubuntu 9.10 along with XP.When I opened one drive from XP as File System (as Ubuntu OS takes on) on the top of the drive "These files are on a video DVD Open Movie Player" like captioncoming but on other XP drive this does not occurNow I wish to what this is what this means How toremove this caption from drive being displayed
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For example:
dir 1:
hello.txt
runme.sh
dir 2:
runme.sh
oct12.log
[Code]....
me with proper syntax / command to remove temporary files in linux
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2)Any way to remove unneeded config files automatically? I don't always use purge when I remove a package just in case I want to reinstall it, well weeks later I def don't want it, is there an apt or dpkg command that will automatically remove them after the package is gone? I know autoclean and autoremove handle orphans and unneeded .deb's
3) How stable is Sidux in reality? Ran it in a VM and had a few errors every so often while using it, but i wasnt sure how much of that was the fact it was a VM. Some say its stable enough for daily use, some say it breaks every other day
how can i remove 'applications' and 'files and folders' launchers from unity in Ubuntu 11.04? Because applications and files and folders are already accessible from typing in the search box which gets opened clicking the top most left button.
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