2016年9月20日 · rm example $ rm example rm: cannot remove `example': Is a directory As you can see, rm does not remove directories by default. rm example -f $ rm example -f rm: cannot remove `example': Is a directory Using the -f flag still doesn't allow it …

2015年6月12日 · $ touch myfile $ chmod 400 myfile $ rm myfile rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `myfile'? So rm will warn you if you try to delete a file you don't have write permissions on. This is allowed if you have write permissions on the directory but is a little weird, which is why rm normally warns you about it.

Anyway, this is a relatively new restriction, it was added in the 7th version of the POSIX specification (the previous one is here), before that rm -rf / was a perfectly valid command. On a historical note, the . and .. directories have always been protected from rm, ever since 1979, when rm first acquired

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2021年6月18日 · rm () { /bin/rm -i ${1+"$@"}; } Hence, none of the above answers regarding aliases did work. To counter the annoying behaviour I unset the rm function in my .bashrc file. unset -f rm I had a similar problem then the opener. However I did not found any answer that mentioned the possibility that rm is hidden by a shell function. So I added the ...

After a bit longer time rm asked me if I wanted "to remove the write-protected file 'something'".Quite quickly I felt the chills and softly and very controlled I pressed Ctrl+c. ~Half of my ~ was deleted, but I managed to get everything of value back through above described grepping and some more or less current backups. I had some personally ...

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2009年10月27日 · To directly answer your question, "no - you can't do what you describe with rm". You can, however, do it you combine it with find. Here's one of many ways you could do that: # search for everything in this tree, search for the file pattern, pipe to rm find . | grep <pattern> | xargs rm For example, if you want to nuke all *~ files, you could so ...

I have not been able to find a Windows equivalent to this. The closest thing is rmdir /s ., which is equivalent to rm -r ., except it refuses to delete . because the shell is using it. Not sure if rm -r . also refuses to delete .. Haven't tested that. Like *NIX rmdir, Windows rmdir will refuse to delete a single directory if non-empty.

Remove-Item -Force is not the same as rm -f.-Force Forces the cmdlet to remove items that cannot otherwise be changed, such as hidden or read-only files or read-only aliases or variables. To demonstrate that -Force does not "ignore nonexistent files and arguments, never prompt", if I do rm -r -Force thisDirectoryDoesntExist, it results in this ...