[Cialug] Unable to remove a directory in RedHat7

[Tom Sellers]

Here is the command string that I entered.

find Portal -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} \;

It ran without any errors but the Portal directory is still there.  I don't really understand the command line.  I substituted the directory name in place of /dir but nothing else.  Is that correct? I ran the command line while I as already at the directory that contains the directory Portal.
 

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 From: Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu>
To: cialug at cialug.org 
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Unable to remove a directory in RedHat7
  

On 08/21/2014 07:47 PM, Tom Pohl wrote:
> Can you try to mv the folder to a higher level like /usr/local/samba/public/extended/
> 
> -Tom

rm -rf can get hung up on unusual filenames, but "find" isn't as finicky.

Just try:

  find /dir -type f -exec rm {} \;

Watch for error messages - they'll expose the culprit.  The above will
leave all of the directories in place though.

If it goes through, you can also try clipping all directories one-deep:

  find /dir -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} \;


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