Can not delete directory

Zero4 · 09-05-2015, 10:34 PM

Hi
I am trying to delete some directories from the command line of my CentOS 7 machine,
there is no gui.
When I issue this comman

Code:

rmdir dirnane

it returns

Code:

cannot remove udirnameu:no such file or directory

There are "-" above the u's on either side of the name. I could not reproduce that character

Thank you

allend · 09-05-2015, 10:41 PM

Have you tried 'rmdir *dirname*'? It seems you have some unicode characters in the name.

unSpawn · 09-06-2015, 04:51 AM

..and output of 'stat /path/to/directory' could help too.

Hasek39 · 09-06-2015, 06:10 AM

Try this:

Code:

ls -i

then for files

Code:

find -inum inode_number -delete

or for directories

Code:

find -inum inode_number -exec rm -rvf {} +

EternalCuriosity · 09-07-2015, 06:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zero4

Hi
I am trying to delete some directories from the command line of my CentOS 7 machine,
there is no gui.
When I issue this comman

Code:

rmdir dirnane

it returns

Code:

cannot remove udirnameu:no such file or directory

rmdir is for deleting empty directory. If it's not empty, try:

Code:

rm -r ?dirname?