Feb 11, 2019 · The minimum number of permissions to delete a file is and . But permission is needed to know the name of the file you want to delete... From the linked doc, it seems that …

How would I use sed to delete all lines in a text file that contain a specific string?

The -delete option used to demand FreeBSD or later GNU find and is still non standard in a few other find implementations, so is not always available. The command termination + instead of …

May 31, 2015 · On some Unix variants such as OSX (but not Linux), the ACL on a file can prevent its deletion; ls -l would show @ at the end of the permission field if there was an ACL entry on …

Do you want to delete directories and files with a single find command, or are you ok with two separate commands?

95 I used the below command to delete files older than a year. find /path/* -mtime +365 -exec rm -rf {} \; But now I want to delete all files whose modified time is older than 01 Jan 2014. How do …

I have come across the following file, which I need to remove from the new machine but am unable to, even when running as root: -rw------- 1 2003 2003 219 jan 11 14:22 .bash_history …

Oct 16, 2014 · It will delete all lines from the current line to the end of file. So to make sure that you'll delete all the lines from the file, you may mix both together, which would be: ggdG (while …

How do I delete a file or folder in Python? For Python 3, to remove the file and directory individually, use the unlink and rmdir Path object methods respectively:

I tried to rm -rf a folder, and got "device or resource busy". In Windows, I would have used LockHunter to resolve this. What's the linux equivalent? (Please give as answer a simple …