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Ubuntu rm not deleting files
My colleague and I have been struggling with deleting a directory and its contents. We are working on a new version of our websites source code on Ubuntu 8.04 (dir: /var/www/websites), what we want to...
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Can I recover from “rm /*”?
I’m running Debian… And, I accidentally ran “rm /*” as root (hurray!) – luckily I didn’t use -r, so the dirs are still intact. However, when trying to boot, I get… run-init: /sbin/init: No such file...
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Deleting files in Linux
I need to find all files matching a certain criteria and delete them – here’s a snippet: /var/www/somesite/releases/{many directories}/tmp/attachment_fu I’d like to find all files in any...
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Unix magic, delete all .pyc files from a tree of directories?
Is there a quick way of deleting all the .pyc files from a tree of directories? If you’ve got GNU find then you probably want find <directory name> -name '*.pyc' -delete If you need something...
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How do I prevent accidental rm -rf /*?
Just run rm -rf /* accidentally, meant rm -rf ./* (notice the star after the slash) alias rm='rm -i' and --preserve-root by default didn’t save me, so are there any automatic safeguards for this?...
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What happens when you ‘delete’ a file as opposed to securely shredding it?
I read that when you delete a file, depending on the situation, its possible to recover its contents. What happens on a hardware level when you you ‘delete’ a file, ex. $ rm myFile as opposed to...
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Recover data from EXT3 filesystem
Our junior sysadmin accidently deleted some of the directories. Can anyone please suggest any free/proprietary application to recover files from an EXT3 filesystem (RHEL 5.x) ? I really hope you have...
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I removed the run directory of /var/run on Debian and need to fix it
Can anyone tell me how I can undo a sudo rm -r /var/run mistake? I am unable to use sftp and mysql now. Asked by Patrick van Marsbergen mkdir /var/run chmod 755 /var/run that will fix most things,...
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remove files starting with dash
I have (by mistake) created several files starting with a dash in my home directory. I can not select them nor delete them. # ls -lht -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 325 Mar 22 16:33 -s-vmstat-overall...
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rm + how to remove file with special Characters
I have this file in my linux machine: ----------9976723563nneh4_-----192.9.200.4 I try to delete this file but I cant as all see here: what need to add to rm in order to remove this file ? rm...
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