Can't move files to .trash

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Thu Jun 7 18:25:29 PDT 2012


On 8/06/2012 10:58 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> sftp> rename index.html .trash/index.html
> Couldn't rename file "/oj/home/dholmes/index.html" to
> "/oj/home/dholmes/.trash/index.html": Permission denied
> sftp>
>
> I've tried this every which way but can't move anything to trash.

By coincidence (?) I just saw an update to an internal wiki page that 
says to do:

chmod 77 .trash

and that fixed it.

> I really wish we had a better interface for doing the file management
> here. :(

Still very tedious deleting things this way - particular when a messed 
up rsync/scp dumps a ton of files in your top-level directory. :(

David

> Thanks,
> David


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