the problem is NOT
system files
we wanna delete in win and libnux HTM files.
RM brings the message: file is in use
regards
On 24.03.2017 17:41, Michael msulli1355@gmail.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
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> On 03/24/2017 08:20 AM, Scott scottro@nyc.rr.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
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>> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 01:33:30PM +0100, 'highskywhy@yahoo.de'
>> highskywhy@yahoo.de [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>>> hello
>>> how to delete undeletable htm files?
>>>
>>> I found rm -f
>>> But in the manual is written rm -f or rm -ff are very dangerous.
>>> What can I do wrong?
>>
>> -f means force. However, if you don't have write permissions to the file,
>> you still won't be able to do it.
>>
>> I'm not familiar with -ff, you may mean -rf. The -r means recursive--that
>> is, if you're removing a directory, adding -r to it means you're removing
>> everything in that directory. It can be dangerous because it doesn't go
>> into trash, it is gone forever.
>>
>> If you are in the wrong directory when you type it, you can damage your
>> system. For example, if you're in the /usr directory and think you are
> in a
>> user's directory, and you do sudo rm -rf * that will remove everything
>> under /usr, breaking the system.
>>
>> It's always good to do echo rm -rf <whatever> before doing it, which will
>> show you the results. I remember working on a server we hosted, and though
>> these days, I seldom bother with echo rm -rf, for whatever reason, I did.
>> It turned out that I was in the / directory, rather than where I thought I
>> was, and if I'd just done rm -rf *, I would have brought the client down
>> till we could restore from backups.
>>
>> Again, the file you mention may need root privilege to be removed, that's
>> a more likely reason than not using -f, unless for some reason, it's been
>> made immutable--that is, maybe someone ran a chattr on it, making the file
>> unable to be removed.
>>
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