topic Re: Problems with the command rm in Operating System - HP-UX

Problems with the command rm

Goriik — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:10:51 GMT

I'm trying to delete a large number of logs. There is a confirmation of 8583pos_int.out: 640 mode? (y / n) n. How to make the removal occurred without confirmation?

user@server:~> alias | grep cle
alias cle='(cd ~/output/log; rm *; close_out all;)'
alias mqq='while [ 1 ]; do clear; mq; sleep 3; done;'

user@server:~/output/log> rm *
8583pos_int.out: 640 mode ? (y/n) n

Re: Problems with the command rm

Horia Chirculescu — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:28:23 GMT

Did you tried with rm -f * ?

Horia.

Re: Problems with the command rm

Kapil Jha — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:28:57 GMT

if you sure you have to delete files just run #rm -f

over here I suppose you are not the owner of the file or root??

BR,
Kapil+

Re: Problems with the command rm

Goriik — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:43:21 GMT

Owner, but not root.

Re: Problems with the command rm

Modris Bremze — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:52:20 GMT

And what about directory permissions - you need rwx to rm something in it.

Re: Problems with the command rm

Kapil Jha — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:37:16 GMT

still I would think rm -f should work.

BR,
Kapil+

Re: Problems with the command rm

Kapil Jha — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:39:50 GMT

Just....

rm -f * is probably the most dangerous command in any UNIX, worse than a reboot.
I have learned not to use * with rm :)
use it wisely, it really sucks sometimes.

BR,
Kapil+

Re: Problems with the command rm

madhuchakkaravarthy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:53:52 GMT

HI

check the permission....

regards

MC

Re: Problems with the command rm

RC Park — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:49:54 GMT

Suggestion:

Being anal, as any good admin should be about using rm, you're much better off creating an object list that you verify and edit then process through a simple command line that will rm the files. WAY more safe than just issuing rm at the command line with wild cards.

For example:
1. create the list by using ls and sending output to a file such as /tmp/flist1

> ls -1 >/tmp/flist1

2. edit the list to be sure only files you want deleted are in the file

> vi /tmp/flist1

3. run a command to process the list

> cat /tmp/flist1|xargs -i rm -f {}

The above command will rm the object {} which gets sent to the {} by xargs processing each line of the file /tmp/flist1

BEST way, IMHO. Also, you can then cp the file to /tmp/flist2, chop all but the first 5 lines and run the above as a test to see if it works.

-RCP