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Remove all files in *that* directory except *these* files - dangerous in remote directory?
I'm writing a small bash script for deploying a bunch of files to a specific remote directory. The process is as follows:
Mount remote directory (sshfs)
Remove everything except these few files
Copy ...
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Aliasing the rm command to avoid evaluating separate asterisks
I would like to use the rm command such that it returns an error when there is a separate asterisk in its argument. For example, if I type rm -f * .txt , then this command should not be executed (this ...
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Bash one-liner: check if a directory exists; if so, delete it, then create it anyway
I have to use bash -c, so i need something like bash -c "rm -r tmp/mydir1 && mkdir -p tmp/mydir1/mydir2"
but it does not work in this way.
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delete all files except a pattern list file
I need to delete all the files in the current directory except a list of patterns that are described in a whitelist file (delete_whitelist.txt) like this:
(.*)dir1(/)?
(.*)dir2(/)?
(.*)dir2/ser1(/)?(.*...
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How do you remove an entire directory except for certain subdirectories in linux? [duplicate]
Suppose I run the following command in linux:
$ mkdir -p mp3 jpeg/dir1 jpeg/dir2 txt
$ touch mp3/1.mp3 mp3/2.mp3 mp3/3.mp3
$ touch jpeg/1.jpeg jpeg/2.jpeg jpeg/3.jpeg
$ touch txt/1.txt txt/2.txt txt/3....
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Recover deleted files from local git repo?
I accidentally rm'd some files in a git repo. Those files had been changed a lot and hadn't been git add'd yet.
Is there a way to restore the files to their 'last saved' state?
UPDATE
Just wanted to ...
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Bash script to delete certain files from "semi-sequentially" numbered directories?
I have directories that are sequentially numbered 1001, 1002, 1003, etc... Some directories may not exist so we may see instances like 1001, 1002, 1003, 1007, 1008, etc... and I want to delete all ...
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Automatically solve rm cannot remove path : device or resource busy error
I am trying to remove a directory /path/to/dir using the rm -rf command.
Unfortunately I get the error
rm: cannot remove '/path/to/dir/.nfsdda293a660f276ca0000000a': Device or resource busy
After a ...
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bash: removing many files of the same extension [duplicate]
I am dealing with the folder consisted of many log filles. I have to remove all of them using bash. My version using rm does not work:
rm "${results}"/*.log
that gives me:
./dolche_vita.sh:...
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Cannot remove .git/: Directory not empty
I have a .git/ folder that I'd like to delete. However, it isn't possible because there is a puzzling file into it which is not reachable.
Below is my try:
$ rm -rf .git/
rm: cannot remove '.git/': ...
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Not able to remove a file
Am not able to delete a file called 'go' in my bash home directory. I tried rm -r go..it dint work.it showed permission denied.as am a beginner I really can't figure it out how such a directory was ...
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Deleting certain files in multiple folders in one directory in Linux
I have about 30+ folders I want to delete only certain file types inside.
I can do this by using:
Find Dir1, Dir2, Dir3 (Etc.) -name "*.filetype" -Delete
However, this would be very long to ...
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How do you delete all hidden and non-hidden files except one?
How do you delete all hidden and non-hidden files except one in Bash?
Because I am creating a repository, and just now creating an update script.
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find outputs result but -exec ignores it
I wrote a simple command to find folders older than a month and delete them.
Here is the command :
find . -type d -mtime +31 -exec bash -c 'rm -rfv "$0"' {} \;
It works fine in most cases, ...
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How to remove all files except the ones that matches a pattern along several number of directories
lets say I have a my_dirs/ directory, insdie that directory I have several parallel subdirectories which has several files and I want to delete all of them except the ones that have the substring '....
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Operating on multiple specific folders at once with cp and rm commands
I'm new to linux (using bash) and I wanted to ask about something that I do often while I work, I'll give two examples.
Deleting multiple specific folders inside a certain directory.
Copying multiple ...
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Command to delete multiple files
I'm a new student in programming and I'm stuck on a question, which is:
Enter a command to delete all files that have filename starting with logtest, except logtest itself (delete all files starting ...
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How to delete a folder by parameter and protect by user bugs/errors
Let's say I have in script something as following which get script input and delete that folder:
cd ` dirname "$0" `
X="${1}"
rm -rf ${X}/*
I see few bugs in this code:
if the ...
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How to "rm -rf" with excluding files and folders with the "find -o" command
I'm trying to use the find command, but still can't figure out how to pipe the find ... to rm -rf
Here is the directory tree for testing:
/path/to/directory
/path/to/directory/file1_or_dir1_to_exclude
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Delete Everything in a Directory Except One FIle - Using SSH
In BASH, the following command removes everything in a directory except one file:
rm -rf !(filename.txt)
However, in SSH the same command changes nothing in the directory and it returns the following ...
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How to delete all but the oldest duplicate flle listed in a text file using rm
I have followed an article by Rick James on how to locate duplicates. He never went farther than producing a list of files that contain their md5 hash, count, file name.
find . -type f -not -empty -...
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How to prevent rm from reporting that a file was not found in CURL?
When executing the command
curl -k HOST --user user:pass -Q "rm nosuch"
I get an answer
curl: (21) rm command failed: No such file or directory
I tried using -f, but the result hasn't ...
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rm -r command not working inside of shell in macos catalina
I am new to shell scripting. I wrote basic simple.sh file on mac. I put my .sh file to /usr/local/bin directory and I added sh file to the chrometab so as to run every minute. My sh file works fine on ...
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How to use rm interactively in a while read loop?
I'm little stuck in a script that's used to find and delete certain files. I want to give the user the opportunity to iterate through the list and delete each file only after human approval.
However, ...
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Batch removal (rm -rf) just for existing directories in a subdirectory
Background: I have written a very simple backup removal script which should delete backups that are older than three version updates.
This works by always adding the newly installed version of my ...
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Cannot remove .git: Directory not empty
Unable to remove .git
I have a git repository, Rift, that I am trying to remove. On attempting to run rm -rf, I get the error: rm: cannot remove 'Rift/.git/objects/pack': Directory not empty.
When I ...
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Answer no to all questions using the yes command
I'm trying to remove all files except read-only ones, but this command removes all of them anyway:
yes n | rm *
Did I do something wrong? If not, why doesn't it work?
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Removing a remote file through ssh stops the while loop the command is in?
I have this script that lists files having been modified more than 10minutes ago on a remote disk, retrieve them locally, and then, is supposed to delete them on remote.
The script works when I don't ...
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xargs rm -r with regex returns "no such directory"
I have a folder with several subdirectories b1_3, b1_4 etc. Inside these subdirectories I have some files and other subdirectories, and the names of these subdirs follow a pattern alpha[digits]_etc, ...
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How to make rm not delete symbolic links?
So, I was getting rid of the unwanted files and I deleted some folder. After some time I saw another folder which appears red in ls -la. I knew I deleted the actual folder and thus I was very sad and ...
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bash: command works when inputted manually but not on script [duplicate]
I have a simple bash command, which does some stuff and at some point tried to delete everything except a few things. When running inside a script, it fails. But when I try to run it again, it works.
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Bash SFTP batch file equivalent for Amazon S3
I need to execute a series of remove file commands (listed below) to an Amazon S3 bucket from a pipe. But I need to execute them line by line using the Command Line Utility (v2) from Amazon S3 and I ...
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find command: delete everything but one folder
I have this command:
find ~/Desktop/testrm -mindepth 1 -path ~/Desktop/testrm/.snapshot -o -mtime +2 -prune -exec rm -rf {} +
I want it to work as is, but it must avoid to remove a specific ...
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Remove all files contain specific string - Bash
I have these bad data
AWS-Console.pngcrop-AWS-Console.png
Alimofire.pngcrop-Alimofire.png ...
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Why do I get prompted when I attempt to delete my project?
I just did
rm -r projectName
then I got:
override r--r--r-- honey/staff for projectFolder//.git/objects/pack/pack-9323e9c7e9a036b5f0f9186d05e31536e342308.pack?
Based on a Google search, I know I ...
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Why script delete file even with message rm: cannot remove '/path/file.txt': No such file or directory?
I made a bash script that delete files into a folder through a loop. The shell give me the error
rm: cannot remove '/path/file.txt': No such file or directory but the script remove the files ...
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MacOS Bash find and echo not working as expected?
I was working on housekeeping an application volume and as a rule of thumb I prepend an echo before the rm in my find command. This has worked for me a very long time until today.
I'm just wondering ...
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Script to delete old files and leave the newest one in a directory in Linux
I have a backup tool that takes database backup daily and stores them with the following format:
*_DATE_*.*.sql.gz
with DATE being in YYYY-MM-DD format.
How could I delete old files (by comparing ...
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Why isn't pattern matching working with 'rm' from bash script? [duplicate]
I am cleaning up temporary files throughout each step of a long bash script. I am hoping to remove, using absolute file paths, every file with a certain prefix that is not a log file. I have tested ...
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Unable to delete all files from directory [closed]
I want to delete all the files under the volume directory. The directory is inside the Kubernetes pod. So I am using the exec command.
My command -
kubectl exec $POD -- rm -rf /usr/local/my-app/...
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Check user input on "rm -i"?
Is there a way to check the user's response to a rm -i execution?
I'd like to echo something depending on whether or not the user responded with y or n.
The command returns successfully regardless ...
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How do I delete a file with name ''$'\r'?
For some reasons, I have a file in one of my directories that I cannot delete:
$ ls -al
drwxrwxr-x 2 xxx xxx 4096 Oct 10 14:05 ''$'\r'
(more files follow...)
The problem is that I cannot delete it. ...
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Bash script rm command failed in while loop
I have a remote server with a couple of cache keys and I am trying to delete them. However, I am getting an error when I am running the script.
This is the script that I am using at the moment. Also, ...
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Cannot rm -rf using variable
I am trying to write a BASH script which will delete recursively all files in a directory.
When I write in console rm -rf /home/dir/dir/*, it works great, but I can't do it using variables.
VAR="/...
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Is there any difference between rm -r and rm -R?
Title is Description.
I just wonder there is any difference between rm -r and rm -R.
Linux man description is seemed like they are totally same(and one more, --recursive), but many people use -r ...
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Cannot remove symbolic link to directory
I have a directory reference in my Downloads directory that contains a symbolic link (created with ln -s) to another directory. I get conflicting error message when trying to remove the symlink:
rm ...
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Deleting files and prompting user for his decision
printf "$(find "./RIT/"${neki_array["letnik"]}"" -name "*" )\n">> tmpfile
while IFS='' read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]] ; do
echo "Do you want to delete "$line"? y|Y or n|N"
read ...
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Trying to remove my .git folder and 'rm -r .git --force' is not working
rm -r .git
rm -r .git --force
I get the following and there seems to be a never ending supply after I enter 'yes' and move to the next.
override r--r--r-- redacted/staff for .git/objects/95/...
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Remove ".bash_aliases" with bash script
In my .bashrc I'm using .sh script for easily configuring newly installed Debian. But while trying to
rm -f ~/.bash_aliases
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/.../.bash_aliases
rm -f ~/.bashrc
...
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How to deal with missing operand error when trying to rm
I have the following code
rm "$torrent"/*.{txt,nfo,jpg} && echo "removed \"txt,nfo,jpg\" files"
If there are no files to delete then I get the "missing operand" error which I would like to ...
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