I have a directory with images. Suddenly I found out that there’s a new image with a new name. The image content is similar to another image in another directory but with a different name. I didn’t copy this image to this directory.
I want to remove the contents of a zfs datasets subdir. It’s a large amount of data. For the pool “nas”, the path is /nas/dataset/certainFolder
My directory (in Linux) looks like com/com/{various,files} where com and com are folders of the same name and the second com holds the various files. I want the first com removed, but the second and files in the second kept.
I am using a cowdancer/debootstrap setup to generate a chroot.
In bash all I know is that
I have a mess in my photo libary. I have files like these:
I alias rm to rm -i so that when I mistype file* as file * I get prompted before accidentally deleting files I didn’t intend to delete. Is there an equivalent idiom for directories?
Imaging the next simple file structure within the /home/user/ directory: /home/user |–dir0 |–dir1 |–file1 My current directory is ‘dir1’ and I remove the directory from inside with the following command: rm -r ../dir1 After that (and not getting any errors on the terminal), the working directory still is the same and when using the command … Read more
With the command:
I want to see what files will be deleted when performing an rm in linux. Most commands seem to have a dry run option to show just such information, but I can’t seem to find such an option for rm. Is this even possible?