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?

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 …

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:

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Well, it's entirely impossible to remove a file that doesn't exist, so it seems that the concept of "delete a file only if it exists" is redundant. So, rm -f filename, or rm filename 2>> /dev/null, or [[ …

May 31, 2015 · I have directory exam with 2 files in it. I need to delete files but permission is denied. Even rm -rf command can't delete these files. I logged in as a root user.