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Permanently delete using delete key - Linux
How can I set the Delete key to do the same thing as Shift + Delete: permanently delete files, rather than sending them to the trash can?
I'm using Linux Mint 14, a Debian distro, with the Cinnamon ...
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RSync move files to a different directory if they were deleted on the server
So right now I use rsync to synchronize files with a server. Sometimes the files on the server are deleted (I know about the --delete option and I do not use it) and those files are left in my local ...
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Linux, How to delete a folder with more than 1 million files?
I'm working on a website for a client, and I just see a folder containing more than 1 million cache files.
I need to delete him, but i can't, i have this message : Argument list too long
I started ...
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How to find which files and folders were deleted recently in Linux?
I am having one particular folder (/home/sam/officedocuments) which is having hundreds of folders and files.
I think I deleted some files and folders by mistake but I'm not sure.
How to find which ...
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How to delete a file containing dots and backslashes in Fedora 17
I'm using Fedora 17 and I generated a folder named .\data\ from code
How can I delete this file from the command line?
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how to delete **this** file
this one is odd:
I have two partitions on my computer, one for linux (ubuntu 12.latest) and one for window 7. I use grub to choose the system to boot. I made a Screenshot in Linux and saved it on the ...
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Deleting files doesn't free space
I've got a disk formatted as ext3, which was filled completely. I'm attempting to free up some space on it by deleting files, but it's not working. I can rm the files, and they don't show up in the ...
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How can I delete files that have a size of 0 in bash? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Bash Find Files with zero size and delete files with different extensions
How can I delete files that have a size of 0 in bash?
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1answer
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Delete all files inside a directory over FTP with BASH
I try to delete all files from a directory on a remote FTP server with BASH. I was only able to delete the files and the folder, but not just clearing a folder out.. :/
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Identify files that would be deleted when removing an rsync --link-dest directory?
I have a Time Machine-style backup system set up on my NAS (running BusyBox v1.16.1), using rsync --link-dest as described here: http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/rsync_time_machine.html
Is there ...
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already opened files in a directory can still be saved after the directory is deleted - Linux
This is annoying feature of Linux.
If I opened a file in a directory and then delete the directory, and copy another directory having the same name to the same place, I can still edit and save the ...
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Root Can't Delete Folder It Owns
Platform: CentOS 6.2 Shell: tcsh
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EDIT 2
Brian Swift has pointed out a workable solution. ...
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Will deleting partitions affect my hard drive in any way?
I installed a Suse partition of around 200 Gigabytes on my hard drive, primarily running Windows 7. I am sick of Suse's crap, and just want to get rid of the OS and get that partition back for ...
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How to delete visible Desktop.ini, Thumbs.db and album art from My Music
How do I delete album art, desktop.ini, and thumbs.db from my music folder in Windows 7? I can see all of these files because I took the hard drive from my old computer and put it in my new one. It ...
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Script to keep specific directories that contains a .txt file and deletes the files from the other directories without the specific .txt file
I am almost done with the script but this outputs directories. What I would like is to have an output of files. Anyway one of you guys wanna help me out? :)
#!bin/bash
( find /testftp/* -type d ;
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How can I use the find command to remove directories without eliminating certain subdirectories?
I am trying to modify the following command in a script that removes directories based on age.
Example directories would be the following:
/a/b/c/2011/11/11
/a/b/c/2011/11/11/12-ACD-1234
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Operation not permitted error when deleting as root
I got into a weird situation. I got a 1Tb portable HD filled with some contents. It was used in Windows and as always packed with virus. I tried deleting some folders as root. But the following error ...
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How do I temporary delete files with the command line?
I've tried to alias rm with rm='mv $1 /tmp/' to no avail.
How can I temporary delete files with the command line?
I want to replace the rm command with the mv command to not delete my files and ...
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How can I remove a directory with rm - rf?
I try to remove a folder with
rm -rf foldername
… but it says
rm: cannot remove folder :is a directory.
What's wrong?
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Deleting Linux partition
I am currently running a dual boot machine with Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows Vista.
Is there any way I can delete the Linux partition and Grub boot loader without affecting the Windows partition at all?
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How to lock a file against deletion but still make it writeable?
I want to make a file locked against deletion but still be writeable. How do I do this?
The file in question is a truecrypt volume as a file on a NAS SMB Network share, so I don't want to ...
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Two commands to move files to trash. What's the difference?
trash-cli provide a trash command, and gvfs-bin provides a gvfs-trash command that move files / directories to the trash can.
Is there an important difference between these two commands?
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What are the techniques for securely erasing data in Linux? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to wipe free disk space in Linux?
This question is inspired by What is the best tool for file-shredding on a memory card?, in which brice recommended the simple ...
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In GNU/Linux, how to restrict deletion of files and directories owned by a user to a super user only?
In GNU/Linux, how can directories be set such that the owner can only add/read files/directories to/from them but only a super user can do any deletion in that structure?
Consider this scenario: You ...
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Delete File with SSH Access on Linux
I have a VPS.
I want to delete some specific folder inside.
/var/BACKUP 01
I want to delete all files in BACKUP 01
How can I do it with SSH access?
I'm using linux,please type a command here.
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Force delete a directory
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 ...
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How to recover deleted file if it is still opened by some process?
$ cat important_file > /dev/null &
[1] 9711
$ rm important_file
$ killall -STOP cat
[1]+ Stopped cat important_file > /tmp/p
$ ls -l /proc/`pidof cat`/fd/
total 0
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Extract executable/script from memory in (Ubuntu) Linux
Okay, on Linux, when I delete a running executable or script, it usually (for me, pretty much always, but I don't know if it will work in every case) continues to run without any problems. So I've got ...
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deleted files recovery
I was working on my Ubuntu lab machine and unconsciously deleted the project files I was working on.
I have been working on the project since last 10 days now. Is there a way to restore the files? I ...
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Bash script to keep last x number of files and delete the rest
I have this bash script which nicely backs up my database on a cron schedule:
#!/bin/sh
PT_MYSQLDUMPPATH=/usr/bin
PT_HOMEPATH=/home/philosop
PT_TOOLPATH=$PT_HOMEPATH/philosophy-tools
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Recover open but deleted file on Linux using ln instead of cp
Say I have a file that's downloading (from a source that's hard to re-download from), but accidentally deleted from the filesystem namespace (/tmp/blah), and I'd like to recover this file. Normally I ...
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How to delete file with this name on linux: -]???????q
Somehow a file named -]???????q got created on my terminal. I tried rm -f "-]???????q" (in double quotes), but it did not get deleted. (Error:: rm: invalid option -- ]). How do I delete it?
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How to use “rm” to remove files with a “:” in them?
I am using Ubuntu 10.04, and I have a directory with a bunch of files. We changed the naming scheme of the files a while ago, and now I want to delete all the old ones.
New Name scheme: ...
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How do I remove someone else's subdirectory from under my directory?
I was sharing files with a coworker on a Linux server, and he added some new files. Now we've moved the files somewhere else, so I'd like to remove the old files. However, when my coworker added his ...
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Delete Directories smaller than x
How can I delete Directories which are smaller than, say, 1000 KB?
I already have a file list from the command:
du -sk * | sort -n > sort.txt
but I don't know how to proceed.
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How do you delete an iFolder from iFolder admin interface
There are only two buttons at the bottom of the screen "enable" and "disable". When I check the box next to an iFolder one of them is lit (depending on what the state of the folder is)... but there is ...
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Deleting all folders and files underneath it in linux with a certain name?
I 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 ...
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How to get rid of superuser`s password?
My father put a new superuser password on my laptop, and now i cant access my computer without him putting the password in.
I am really helpless.
How can i get rid of his superuser control?
Can i ...
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where are deleted files kept?
Ubuntu 9.10
I recently deleted some files. I would like to know are the files kept in a directory? Like in windows recycle bin. I would like to know where these files are?
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delete key on linux does not work
My delete key does not work in ubuntu, it does nothing. I understand that this is a common problem, but I could not solve it with the information I found elsewhere.
I ran xev.
Pressing the 'a' key ...
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Deleting large no of files on linux eats up CPU
I generate more than 50GB of cache files on my RHEL server (and typical file size is 200kb so no of files is huge). When I try to delete these files it takes 8-10 hours.
However, the bigger issue is ...
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In linux, what would happen to a running program when it's executable file has been modified, or deleted
Let's say /usr/local/bin/ruby is running in the background, and then we overwrite ruby with a different version, or even delete ruby.
What will happen to those running ruby processes?
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How do I delete files greater than a certain date on linux
Occasionally I extract an an archive into the wrong folder and would like to move or delete the newly extracted files.
What is the easiest way to do this via the command line? Can I somehow search ...
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How to set a Linux Ditribution to self-destruct (to wipe everything from the system partition) via a script
I know this is a rather strange question, but I actually need to implement something like this for work. I shall be helping to facilitate a course that uses licensed software. The software is somewhat ...
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Why can't I delete a file marked as a socket from my linux ext3 filesystem?
I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 with a ext3 filesystem. A while ago I was hacking on the flock 2.0 source and I have just tried to delete the source directory, but a single file could not be deleted when ...
