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Delete lines with value below (or above) threshold
My file looks like this:
AA 110 B 10 .. BB 15 ... BBB 20 D F 25 D D
AA 111 B 50 .. BB 55 ... BBB 30 F F 45 F F
AA 112 C 2 .. BB 3 ... BBB 0 D F ...
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Delete files of particular extension except one in Linux
I have files:
a.txt
b.txt
e.txt
c.c
d.o
I want to delete ONLY .txt files excluding e.txt, so the files which will remain at the end are:
e.txt
c.c
d.o
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How to clean unnecessary files from Linux [on hold]
Each time I stop a zip process with Cntl+z a large temporary file is left on my server with a name like zi0RAB10 or zilsOZMP. There may be files similar to this throughout the server - the remains of ...
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Why does find not delete the files it found?
I'm trying to understand why the find command is not deleting files in one particular case. I've got the following command:
find C:\\path\\to\\Pictures\\pmcctv -name cap_*.jpg
-o -name cap_*.ogg -o -...
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votes
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How do I delete a directory with hyphen in the name please? [duplicate]
Could someone help me delete a directory named -ltr
I accidentally created this when trying to list items.
None of this works:
rm -R *-ltr*
rm -R "-ltr"
rm -R '-ltr'
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How to delete all except for some specific folder under parent-folder
So here's content under my /html folder.
[root@ip-10-0-7-121 html]# ls
a wp-activate.php wp-content wp-mail.php
b wp-admin wp-cron.php wp-...
