Re: [vox-tech] Removing Files

[Daniel Hurt <dMAPSwhurt@ucdavis.edu>]

I though at first briliant. But:

# mkdir ./tmp
# mv ./movies/* ./tmp
# rm -rf ./movies
rm: cannot remove directory `movies': Directory not empty

Thanks for the help, I will work on it more in the morning :)

Dan

Mark K. Kim wrote:
> There's only one thing to do:
>
>    $ pwd
>    /some/path/to/avi/directory
>    $ cd ..
>    $ mkdir tmp
>    $ mv directory/* tmp
>    $ rm -rf directory
>
> -Mark!!!!
>
>
> On Thu, 20 May 2004, Daniel Hurt wrote:
>
>
> > No luck with the mp3 or avi files.  I have included the excuted commands
> > and the outcomes below.  Thanks for the suggestions though.
> >
> > Mark K. Kim wrote:
> >
> > > Try:
> > >
> > >   1. `rm -i *.avi` (it'll ask you if you wanna delete each file)
> > $ rm -i E*.avi
> > rm: remove regular file `Eddie_Izzard-Dressed_To_Kill.avi'? n
> > rm: remove regular file `Enemy_Of_The_State.avi'? n
> > rm: cannot lstat `Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director\264s
> > Cut).avi': No such file or directory
> >
> >
> >
> > >   2. Removing the file from a graphical program
> > >      (Konqueror, Nautilus, etc.)
> > As stated previously, tried with the gentoo graphical file browser and
> > did not work.  Tried exporting as suggested by number 3, and the file
> > still does not show up in the browser.
> >
> >
> > >   3. Try #1 and #2 with charset set to UTF-8
> > >      (`export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8` under BASH)
> > $ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
> > $ rm -i E*.avi
> > rm: remove regular file `Eddie_Izzard-Dressed_To_Kill.avi'? n
> > rm: remove regular file `Enemy_Of_The_State.avi'? n
> > rm: cannot lstat `Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director\264s
> > Cut).avi': No such file or directory
> >
> >
> >
> > > -Mark
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 19 May 2004, Daniel Hurt wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Ryan wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On Wednesday 19 May 2004 11:26 pm, Daniel Hurt dwhurt-at-ucdavis.edu |lugod|
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > > I have a question regarding deletion of files.  In the conversion of my
> > > > > > > files from my windows to Linux, I had some files that had special
> > > > > > > characters in them.  They copied to the Linux file system, but now I
> > > > > > > cannot access them to modify them.  I was curious about how to go about
> > > > > > > removing these files:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > ls: ./Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director´s Cut).avi: No such file
> > > > > > > or directory
> > > > > rm 'Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director´s Cut).avi'
> > > > > would work. so would
> > > > > rm 'Evil\ Dead\ 3\ -\ Army\ of\ Darkness\ Director\´s\ Cut\).avi
> > > > >
> > > > > But quoting is usualy easier. Or use tab-compleation... that will escape for
> > > > > you.
> > > > Thanks I tried that already :-)  But still not working.  Here are some
> > > > examples of the commands that I tried.  I even tried installing a GUI
> > > > file browser to see if it could see the files but no luck there.
> > > >
> > > > --- Tab Completion:
> > > > $ rm Evil\ Dead\ 3\ -\ Army\ of\ Darkness\ \(Director´s\ Cut\).avi
> > > > rm: cannot remove `Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director\264s
> > > > Cut).avi': No such file or directory
> > > >
> > > > --- Different Quote Tests:
> > > > $ rm 'Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director`s Cut).avi'
> > > > rm: cannot remove `Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director`s Cut).avi':
> > > > No such file or directory
> > > >
> > > > $ rm "Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director's Cut).avi"
> > > > rm: cannot remove `Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director\'s
> > > > Cut).avi': No such file or directory
> > > >
> > > > $ rm "Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director´s Cut).avi"
> > > > rm: cannot remove `Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director\264s
> > > > Cut).avi': No such file or directory
> > > >
> > > >
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