[PLUG] How To Remove "Ghost" Files?

Michael Rasmussen michael at jamhome.us
Fri Oct 8 15:18:34 UTC 2010


On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 09:09:46AM -0500, Fred James wrote:
> Rich Shepard
> One way would be to ...
>     (a) cp all files except the 'unwanted' ones to a new (temporary) 
> directory outside of their current directory
>     (b) rm -rf the directory in which the 'unwanted' files reside
>     (c) mkdir the deleted directory again
>     (d) mv all those 'good' files to the recreated directory
>     (e) rm -rf the temporary directory that you made in step 'a'
> ... there are other ways, of course

rm -i * with a lot of n key pressing is much easier.
modify * to get smaller list to work from.

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