Hello,
I am trying to delete a "doc" folder on my computer but have
been unable to do so.How do I delete it?
Some output below should give an indication of what I have tried.
peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ ls -l
ls: cannot access 'doc': Permission denied
total 236
drw------- 2 root root 4096 Jan 17 23:32 dconf
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? doc
drw-r--r-- 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 18:53 flatpak
drw-r--r-- 2 peter peter 12288 Jan 2 10:53 fontconfig
drw-rw-r-- 2 peter peter 4096 Jan 8 21:23 gstreamer-1.0
drw------- 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 18:53 mate
drw-rw-r-- 3 peter peter 4096 Jan 1 21:25 matplotlib
drw-r--r-- 7 peter peter 4096 Jan 17 16:59 mesa_shader_cache
drw-rw-r-- 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 20:02 mintinstall
drw------- 2 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 18:53 obexd
drw------- 4 peter peter 4096 Jan 1 00:33 pip
-rw-rw-r-- 1 peter peter 165196 Jan 3 08:52
qt_compose_cache_little_endian_fede3597f8724a62b7726a319d60a6bc
drw-r--r-- 2 peter peter 4096 Jan 2 22:08 qtshadercache
drw------- 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 18:54 thumbnails
drwx------ 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 20:08 thunderbird
drwxrwxr-x 2 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 20:12 wine
drwx------ 3 peter peter 4096 Jan 2 00:40 xreader
drwx------ 3 peter peter 4096 Jan 7 22:09 yelp
peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo ls -l
total 236
drw------- 2 root root 4096 Jan 17 23:32 dconf
dr-x------ 2 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 doc
drw-r--r-- 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 18:53 flatpak
drw-r--r-- 2 peter peter 12288 Jan 2 10:53 fontconfig
drw-rw-r-- 2 peter peter 4096 Jan 8 21:23 gstreamer-1.0
drw------- 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 18:53 mate
drw-rw-r-- 3 peter peter 4096 Jan 1 21:25 matplotlib
drw-r--r-- 7 peter peter 4096 Jan 17 16:59 mesa_shader_cache
drw-rw-r-- 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 20:02 mintinstall
drw------- 2 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 18:53 obexd
drw------- 4 peter peter 4096 Jan 1 00:33 pip
-rw-rw-r-- 1 peter peter 165196 Jan 3 08:52
qt_compose_cache_little_endian_fede3597f8724a62b7726a319d60a6bc
drw-r--r-- 2 peter peter 4096 Jan 2 22:08 qtshadercache
drw------- 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 18:54 thumbnails
drwx------ 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 20:08 thunderbird
drwxrwxr-x 2 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 20:12 wine
drwx------ 3 peter peter 4096 Jan 2 00:40 xreader
drwx------ 3 peter peter 4096 Jan 7 22:09 yelp
peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo ls -l doc
total 0
dr-x------ 2 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 by-app
peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo ls -l
doc/by-app
total 0
peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo rm doc
rm: cannot remove 'doc': Is a directory
peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo rm -r doc
rm: cannot remove 'doc/by-app': Function not implemented
peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo rmdir doc
rmdir: failed to remove 'doc': Device or resource busy
peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ lsof -N
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse file system /home/peter/.cache/doc
Output information may be incomplete.
peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo rmdir -p doc
[sudo] password for peter:
rmdir: failed to remove 'doc': Device or resource busy
peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ man rmdir
peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo rmdir -p
doc/by-app
rmdir: failed to remove 'doc/by-app': Function not implemented
peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$
