Did I Just Rm -rf My Entire Home Dir? (data Recovery)

hi guys, im trying to get rid of a non empty directory. i have researched it online and it basically says that the command would be sudo rmdir -r filename
it keeps coming back with invalid option for r

what am i doing wrong?

the directory is in the home directory along with the documents, videos, download etc and i am in the home directory. i tried putting a text file there to make sure i am in the right path and it deleted it with rm so the path is correct.

i understand that i can do it with the gui but im trying to learn the terminal for the next forty years.

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hey, I'm aware that /etc/ stores config files and in my home directory I also have dot files as well as a .config folder.

And I'm told not to edit /etc/ but create a copy in my home directory to preserve original files. Is it as simple as creating the full path the same as /etc/ and editing it in home folder?

Ideally this is how I hope it works, because I don't want to edit /etc/ and end up with a bunch of custom, non default files.

In my RHEL 6 sever space issue so i am mounted new user
home directory to my nas storage with cifs rw permission

but when user using ftp getting error 550 create directory operation failed

vsftpd user home directory mounted with cifs rw permission but getting error 550 create directory operation failed

Stupid question i know. I am trying to install some brother printer drivers and following the instructions it states that i must change to the directory where the file is stored by using the following command line "cd /home/(loginname)/downloads"

this comes back with unkown directory. When i use DIR the directory is there but it will not allow me to access it?

This has worked before. I have been using linux now for a few years and never had this problem before. It must be something stupid that I am doing.

Hello,

I am setting up a linux server for gaming and I am using a script to update the files automatically and create a folder with a certain name.

Code:

# !/bin/bash

# A convenience function, to save us some work
update_server() {
	# Read the app id and the directory into a variable

	APP_ID=$1
	DIR=$2

	# Create the directory ( if it does not exist already )
	if [ ! -d "$HOME/$DIR" ]; then
		mkdir -p "$HOME/$DIR"
	fi

	# Uh-oh, it looks like we still have no directory. Report an error.
	if [ ! -d "$HOME/$DIR" ]; then
		# Describe what went wrong
		echo "ERROR! Cannot create directory $HOME/$DIR!"

		# Exit with status code 1 ( which indicates an error )
		exit 1
	fi

	# Call SteamCMD with the app ID we provided and tell it to install
	./bin/steamcmd.sh +login anonymous +force_install_dir "$HOME/$DIR" +app_update $APP_ID validate +quit
}

# Now the script actually runs update_server ( which we just declared above ) with the id of the application ( 4020 is Garry's Mod ) and the name of the directory we want the server to be hosted from:

update_server 4020 "gmodserver"

exit 0

When I run this script, it creates 2 folders on my server : gmodserver and gmodserver? There is no files downloaded in gmodserver. All the files are downloaded in gmodserver?

I looked for a few hours on how to solve this problem but I have no idea what the added ? might be so I am lost as to what to look for. Could you help me on figuring this out?

Thank you.

edit : I am using ubuntu 15.04 x64 if it makes a difference.

Trying to install software/drivers for wireless dongle on my Fedora Linux box. I have downloaded and expanded my files into my /home/me/Downloads.

In my example: /home/cjh/Downloads/LinuxDriver4Fedora_v2.5.0.3
This is where the make file is.

I run make and get an error:
"make -C /lib/modules/3.4.2-1.fc16.i686/build SUBDIRS=/home/cjh/Downloads/LinuxDriver4Fedora_v2.5.0.3/os/linux modules
make: *** /lib/modules/3.4.2-1.fc16.i686/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [LINUX] Error 2"

The directory "/home/cjh/Downloads/LinuxDriver4Fedora_v2.5.0.3/os/linux" does exist.

What am I missing? I have run it as myself and root and get the same error.

Any assistance greatly appreciated.

TIA,

Skip

I ran a install.sh of some package with the following command.

./install.sh --prefix/home/name/work/i3/ports

and an error occurred

configu error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix: -prefix=/home/name/work/i3/ports

I don't understand what the problem is. Could anyone help me please?

I am needing to know the command(s) to find and copy all files modified, within the last 90 days, of one users home directory to my home directory.

hi all,
I am new to cross compilation .I am trying to cross compile ntp for arm based zync soc board. so i have downloaded ntp source code version ntp-4.2.8-p2

i gave options for confiure file like this ./configure --host=arm-xilinix-linux-gnueabi --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/home/sntp CC=arm-xilinx-linux-gnueabi-gcc -with-yeilding-select=yes
configuration is succesful but when i am going for make it is throwing an error like this

cd ./html && \
../scripts/build/checkHtmlFileDates
cd . && \
./scripts/build/checkChangeLog
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/SNTP/ntp-4.2.8p2'
Making all in sntp
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/SNTP/ntp-4.2.8p2/sntp'
[ ! -r ./../COPYRIGHT ] \
|| [ check-COPYRIGHT-submake -nt ./../COPYRIGHT ] \
|| make check-COPYRIGHT-submake
cd ../libntp && make libntp.a
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/sumanth/SNTP/ntp-4.2.8p2/libntp'
CC systime.o
In file included from ../include/ntp.h:14:0,
from systime.c:9:
../include/ntp_crypto.h:27:25: fatal error: openssl/evp.h: No such file or directory
#include "openssl/evp.h"
^
compilation terminated.
make[3]: *** [systime.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/sumanth/SNTP/ntp-4.2.8p2/libntp'
make[2]: *** [../libntp/libntp.a] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sumanth/SNTP/ntp-4.2.8p2/sntp'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sumanth/SNTP/ntp-4.2.8p2'
make: *** [all] Error 2

suggest me how to fix this?

Regards
sumanth

I'm learning about Linux, started yesterday. I have a question which didn't clear from the book and Google. The question is what is the difference between ./ and / in terminal? I'm asking this because when i give command for example - ./home/yogesh/Desktop/Books it is showing bash: ./home/yogesh/Desktop : No such file or directory but on removing the dot it's showing /home/yogesh/Desktop/Books: Is a directory.
Again on giving command like /Desktop it showing /Desktop :No such file or directory but on adding dot before / it is giving ./Desktop: is a directory.
What is the difference between ./ and / ?
I'm sorry if i asked something foolish but I have to know it anyway. Thankyou in advance and sorry for my bad English.