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A badly-written script created a directory named '--' (including the single quotes) in my home directory.
When I cd to that directory, I am brought back to my home directory.
I'd like to remove that item, but cannot figure out how to do it. Escaping some or all of the characters in the directory name, returns No such file or directory.
rmdir \'--\' should do the trick
simply type the following:
rm -rf \'--
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I want to move all folders from within a folder named public to it's parent folder.
public\public\200 folders
I have tried mv public ~/site/storage/app/public but get the error Directory not empty.
What am I missing? Thanks I'm new to Linux.
Try mv public/* ~/site/storage/app/public! The * selects all the files inside the public directory.
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how I can rename several files (Q0138-9061933666_S5.fasta.db) in a folder and leave only the no as ca (Q0138-9061933666_S5.db) i.e. delete .fasta from all files
Assuming you are in the folder where the files are placed.
for i in *.fasta.db
do
mv $i ${i/\.fasta/} # remove "fasta" from file name
done
See Replace one substring for another string in shell script for details about string substitution
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when I exit my vim, I accidentally typed wq~, and it created my home directory in my other linux directory which I am working on, anyway to remove it?
Quote it
rm '~'
You can also rename it to the name you want:
mv '~' correctname
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To remove all files & subdirectories from a directory, use the below given command.
$ rm -rf directoryname
I'm looking to delete an empty directory. I tried by rm -rf -empty /folder/folder1/Folder2
but doesn't work ? How can I do it ?
The traditional solution is rmdir:
rmdir /folder/folder_to_delete
It will fail if the directory is not empty.
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I have my home directory in /home/tom.
In another partition I have a folder called /data/tomhome.
Basically, I copy all of my data from /data/tomhome to /home/tom
But whenever I update files in /data/tomhome, I still have to copy them to the other directory.
Another way will be to symlink all files but i don't want to make 20 symlinks.
Is there any other way for this?
Try
ln -s /home/tom /data/tomhome
Note: You should delete the directory /data/tomhome with rm -rf /data/tomhome if it exists already