I put together a script to do some file operations for me. I am using the wild card operator * to apply functions to all files of a type, but there is one thing I don’t get. I can unzip all files in a folder like this
I untarred a corrupt tar file, and managed to end up with some directory
that I can not delete,
If I try to delete it, it seems like it can not be found, but ls shows it’s present, both with bash and with python I get similar behaviour, except right after I try to delete it with rm -rf, ls complains it can’t find it, then it lists it (see below after rm -rf). The find command shows the file is present,
but still I can’t think of a way to delete it.
Here are my attempts:
I have an external hard drive which is encrypted via LUKS. It contains an ext4 fs.
I have ubuntu file system directories in the root directory and I accidentally copied hundreds of files into root directory.
Is there a command to delete all the files in a directory that haven’t been modified in N days? I need to clean up some old logs.
I am working through SSH on a WD My Book World Edition. Basically I would like to start at a particular directory level, and recursively remove all sub-directories matching .Apple*. How would I go about that?
I have a directory of 30 TB having billions of files in it which are formally all JPEG files. I am deleting each folder of files like this:
I tried removing the ‘.’ directory. I thought I could just delete my working directory without having to go into a parent directory.
Suppose I have a dir tree like this:
I am trying to delete all the files with a space in their names. I am using following command. But it is giving me an error