[vox-tech] Removing Files

[Daniel Hurt]

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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>_______________________________________________
>>>>vox-tech mailing list
>>>>vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
>>>>http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
>>>>
>>>>_______________________________________________
>>>>vox-tech mailing list
>>>>vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
>>>>http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>vox-tech mailing list
>>vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
>>http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
>>
> 
>