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On Friday 18 Jan 2013, lina wrote: > On Friday 18,January,2013 08:26 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 schrieb Doug: > >> On 01/18/2013 12:29 AM, lina wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I don't know from where jump out a directory with following info. > >>> > >>> $ ls -lrt try/ > >>> ls: cannot access try/STEPS: Permission denied > >>> ls: cannot access try/test_xtc2pdb.f: Permission denied > >>> ls: cannot access try/18059-18059.xtc: Permission denied > >>> ls: cannot access try/read_xtc_main.f: Permission denied > >>> ls: cannot access try/PARA: Permission denied > >>> ls: cannot access try/fort.21: Permission denied > >>> ls: cannot access try/CA-ch1.ndx: Permission denied > >>> ls: cannot access try/CA.ndx: Permission denied > >>> ls: cannot access try/Makefile: Permission denied > >>> -????????? ? ? ? ? ? XX.tar > >>> -????????? ? ? ? ? ? try.pdb > >>> -????????? ? ? ? ? ? try-c.pdb > >>> -????????? ? ? ? ? ? test_xtc2pdb.f > >>> -????????? ? ? ? ? ? SUB_UTILITY.o > >>> -????????? ? ? ? ? ? SUB_UTILITY.f > > > > […] > > > >>> I wonder how can I delete it? > >> > >> What happens if you do rm -rf /try from root? > >> (I/m not all that familiar with Deb, but you must > >> have some way to get admin permission, if you > >> are the owner of the install. su or perhaps sudo.) > > > > Careful: > > > > 1) From the above output it it not certain the the directory is in /. > > It is my /home/lina/try directory. > > Honest speaking, I even didn't know when it showed up. And for those > files inside, it looks so strange for me. might some Fortran code? or > something. > > $ cd try/ > -bash: cd: try/: Permission denied > > I don't feel so comfortable to disturb the root, so second thought, I > will keep this directory since I can't delete. > > Any further suggestions are still highly appreciated. > > Best regards, > > > 2) And no its not cool to insert -rf into rm by default. Modern linux > > filesystems on modern storage can delete several thousands files a > > second! So if you just wanted to delete a file and you added rm -rf, > > just cause you think you are Linux ubergeek, and then by mistake you > > gave rm a directory… well farewell to your data. > > > > > > So first think, then only if really necessary use rm -rf or kill -9. > > > > Ciao, You could try using lsattr. For almost all normal files/dirs all the attr listed should be "-". There may be a few directories with the I attr (which means it is an indexed directory) so don't worry about those.
David
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