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Cant delete files that “do not exist” even though they show up on my hard drive
There are three videos that I downloaded to my default download directory. I moved them to a different directory where I put all my videos, however a copy of the files still show up in my download ...
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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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Delete all files in a folder without deleting directories? (OS X)
Is there a simple terminal command maybe to delete all actual data, all files but leave all the directories there? Including packages (.app) as directories?
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