How do I recursively shred an entire directory tree?
I have a directory tree that I would like to shred with the Linux ‘shred’ utility. Unfortunately, shred has no -R option for recursive shredding.
rm
Removing a vagrant file I see .nfs0000000000b869e300000001
I removed a file and now I see:
How do I remove a file I accidentally created named $file?
I was working on a shell script and I accidentally created a file with the variable as its name. Now I have $file in my ls output, and cannot remove it. What can I do?
Why is rm allowed to delete a file under ownership of a different user?
From the post Why can rm remove read-only files? I understand that rm just needs write permission on directory to remove the file. But I find it hard to digest the behaviour where we can easily delete a file who owner and group different.
Is there any way to prevent deletion of certain files from user owned directory?
Let’s say user has Directory1 and it contains File1 File2 CantBeDeletedFile
How to make so the user would never be allowed to delete the CantBeDeletedFile?
How can I delete a folder with lots of subfolders fast?
I have a folder with 266778 subfolders. How can I delete it?
Unable to delete file, even when running as root
I am in the process of migrating a machine from RHEL 4 to 5. Rather than actually do an upgrade we have created a new VM (both machines are in a cloud) and I am in the process of copying across data between the two.
How far can you go with rm -rf / as root
If you are root, and you issue
Delete all files except in a certain subdirectory with find
I want to recursively delete all files not accessed in a while in folder a, except all files in the subfolder b.
Is there a UNIX command to list all recently removed files from a system
Accidentally a rm -rf command was launched to my root directory instead of current directory. I stopped file removing by Ctrl+C but some files has already been removed. Is there a LINUX command to list all recently removed files from the system to get the affected applications ?