Dear all,

How do I prevent the hidden files from appearing in my directories and files? TQvm!

Best regards,

Isobel French

Academic Coordinator and Research Officer

Division of Neurosurgery

Department of Surgery

Faculty of Medicine

University of Malaya

016-7937605

03-79493138

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Isobel French <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear all, 

Tq so much for your advice!! 

On Friday, July 18, 2014, Matthew Webster <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Isobel,

                      Although the command listed below is in itself fine, it should be noted that running _any_ command on the root filesystem as superuser is potentially extremely dangerous and should be discouraged for non-essential purposes!

Kind Regards

Matthew

Dear Isobel,

.DS_Store is short for "Desktop Services Store" in Mac OS. If you want to delete them, just open "Terminal" (in the Applications/Utilities), and then type in

"sudo find / -name “.DS_Store” -depth -exec rm {} \;", next input your administrator password, finally all similar kinds of files effaced. Have fun!

Best,

Kai

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Kai Zhang


PhD student
Cluster Languages of Emotion
Free University of Berlin
Thielallee 38, 14195 Berlin 
Mobile:+49(0)17644403051
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Kai Zhang


PhD student
Cluster Languages of Emotion
Free University of Berlin
Thielallee 38, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Mobile:+49(0)17644403051
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

2014-07-18 11:03 GMT+02:00 Isobel French <[log in to unmask]>:

Dear all,

I was going onto the basic unix tutorial and was playing around with emcas. Before doing that I created a directory named 'Belle" so that i could play around with emacs. However when I tried removing the directory this i the response I had:

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% cd Belle

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% ls

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% emacs

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% cd ..

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% rmdir Belle

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% mkdir Belle

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% cd Belle

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% emacs Belle

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% emacs Belle

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% rmdir Belle

rmdir: Belle: No such file or directory

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% cd ..

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% rmdir Belle

rmdir: Belle: Directory not empty

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% cd Belle

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% ls

#Belle# #ITF#

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% rmdir ITF

rmdir: ITF: No such file or directory

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% cd ..

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% rmdir Belle

rmdir: Belle: Directory not empty

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% rmdir Belle

rmdir: Belle: Directory not empty

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% rmdir Belle

rmdir: Belle: Directory not empty

[neuros-iMac-2:~] neuro% cd Belle

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% ls

#Belle# #ITF#

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% ls -la

total 8

-rw-r--r--   1 neuro  staff     0 Jul 18 16:37 #Belle#

-rw-r--r--   1 neuro  staff    28 Jul 18 16:43 #ITF#

drwxr-xr-x   4 neuro  staff   136 Jul 18 16:52 .

drwxrw-r--+ 56 neuro  staff  1904 Jul 18 16:02 ..

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% rmdir #ITF#

rmdir: #ITF#: Not a directory

[neuros-iMac-2:~/Belle] neuro% 

There is a hidden file in it as well name '.DS_Store"

Can somebody let me know what I have done and how do I rectify it? Also, how will I be able to remove the directory 'Belle' completely? Thanks!!

Best regards,

Isobel French

Academic Coordinator and Research Officer

Division of Neurosurgery

Department of Surgery

Faculty of Medicine

University of Malaya

016-7937605

03-79493138

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Best regards,

Isobel French

Academic Coordinator and Research Officer

Division of Neurosurgery

Department of Surgery

Faculty of Medicine

University of Malaya

016-7937605

03-79493138