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 …

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:

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

Apr 7, 2015 · I have found the command to delete files older than 5 days in a folder find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \\; But how do I also do this for subdirectories in that folder?

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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 …

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 …

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 …