ITNS HELP REQUEST

How to clean up (remove) your data on the VIMS ftp site

As a rule:

• The VIMS ftp site is a temporary data area, useful for temporary placement of data while conducing transfers between machines within and outside the institute.
• Residence time should be short, typically a week or less.
• Data should be removed when transfers have been completed and verified.

Removing your data from our ftp site

1. Ftp to our site: e.g. ftp ftp.vims.edu
2. Login as anonymous
3. Use your email address as the password
4. Change to your ftp directory: e.g. cd incoming/MyLoginName
5. Use the commands:
1. ls or dir, to list the contents of your directory (note: ls -l will provide a long listing with file size and date created)
2. delete for specific files: e.g. delete myfile.txt
3. mdelete for multiple files with wildcards: e.g. mdelete mydata*.dat for mydata1.dat, mydata2.dat, etc.
6. As always, when finished, say bye

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