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Some Unix commands when working with directories
A couple of months back, I wrote about having to hurriedly back up my Mac after the file system got corrupted…
Along the way I had to pick up some Unix commands that were previously outside my vocabulary… worth noting here for future reference:
- Counting the number of files in a directory with
ls | wc -l - Getting the size of a directory with
du -sh - Shutdown immediately with
shutdown -h now
Force deleting a folder on Windows
I’ve been cleaning down a PC that is no longer needed for regular use, but we’re hanging onto as a spare PC. I figured the quickest way would be to remove some user profiles but Windows Explorer was having difficulty with some temporary files in the AppData folder structure. After a while, I fell back to a trusty cmd prompt…
rd /s /q foldername
The equvalent for a file is del /f /q /a filename.