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Composer runtime error when deleting subdirectories

I am running 'composer install' on my server, and then using the script feature to delete all subdirectories called '.git' but I am running in the following composer error. Delete all .git dirs find: `vendor/ajbdev/authorizenet-php-api/.git': No…
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Ubuntu server: Delete first folder in directory

How can I grab the first subfolder in a directory and delete it? I found a script to monitor the free diskspace. It sends an alert email if space runs low, but I want to also delete some unneeded stuff. I have a backup folder where I save daily and…
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How to increase deletion speed of several folder

I have a script containing about 420k lines of "rm -rf" command like which where generated using a "find" statement. Each pdf's folder is containing between 1 and 30 files (no subfolder). rm -rf /2012/128/211503/pdf rm -rf /2012/128/212897/pdf rm…
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Can't delete corrupt files on Linux

So I got hit by a script kitte... Fortunately the box is Ubuntu and was able to replace w/ binaries from a comparable system, however, Some of the files I couldn't delete, and am still stumped on this. The hijacked files are sitting in the /_bin…
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Pausing deletion of directories if load is high

I have a list of directories that I'd like to delete. However when I do them all at one, load spikes on the box. Does anyone have an example of a script that would wait until load was under a certain level before proceeding with the deletion…
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Very slow rm -rf on OpenVZ VPS with Debian 6 installed

I recently bought OpenVZ VPS and compared to a dedicated servers rm -rfoperation takes considerably longer to complete (about 4x - 5x longer). This is case even if there is one big file as opposed to many small files in directory. The server have…
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Cannot delete a dir via SSH: etc/rc.d/init.d/functions': Operation not permitted

I am attempting to delete a backup directory on MediaTemple's (dv) via SSH. The directory is "old" and contains the entire server contents from OS level that (mt) backed up there after my server was hacked. I want to remove it in case there's any…
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How do I delete a directory that has many subdirectories?

I have a directory with many subdirectories. I tried doing rm -rf mydirectory but it was still running after 1 hour. I have tried getting the number of subdirectories with ls -l . | egrep -c '^-' but it hasn't finished after 30 minutes. Is…
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Linux console - prevent accidental deletion of files

Yesterday I deleted /etc by mistake. I remembered I found a software to prevent this kind of things but I can't find it anymore. I don't remember the name and actually Google is not helping. It had a configuration file with a list of…
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Glob match recursive delete directories except a certain directory

How can I delete all directories recursively where the name starts with app-deployment-* except a particular directory with name app-deployment-245a578. I.E. delete all directories using a glob match but don't delete a particular known named…
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rm -rf until success

I have a deployment script that removes all files in a tmp folder before continuing, but sometimes during the deployment, a process will use one of the tmp files, making the rmcommand fail. This is how my script looks like rm -rf app/tmp tar -xf…
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Ubuntu rm not deleting files

My colleague and I have been struggling with deleting a directory and its contents. We are working on a new version of our websites source code on Ubuntu 8.04 (dir: /var/www/websites), what we want to do is delete the websites directory and…
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CentOS: eror when removing file: "rm: cannot remove '.viminfo': No such file or directory"

I have a file named .viminfo in home directory. I can see that the file is there by ls -lh: $ ls lh ... drwxr-xr-x. 2 mt1022 1091 4.0K Oct 12 2016 .vim -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .viminfo -rw-r--r--. 1 mt1022 1091 305 Nov…
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rm: cannot remove ‘[name].rmanbkp’: Input/output error

I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo) and have vgroup mount to folder is: /dev/mapper/vg_oradata-lv_oradata 886G 636G 206G 76% /bak. Now, In folder /bak have a some file cannot remove with info: [root@bak bak]# ls…
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Why remove some files is so slow?

While tidying up some folders I saw that deleting some files is very slow : $ ls -lah a/ -rwxrwxrwx 1 user user 4 Nov 17 12:31 af8048e4aec858a02ac48119545413dd $ time (rm -v af8048e4aec858a02ac48119545413dd) removed…
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