Mac terminal "no such file or directory" error

1. Each space or other special character needs to be preceded by a backslash, or that path element needs to be in quote marks.

2. The folder name won't have 'rm -rf' at the beginning; that's a command.

3. A 2011 MacBook Pro can't be upgraded past High Sierra.

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mariuste wrote:

Basically, I want to check if a folder named "rm -rf com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots" exists, and possibly delete it.

Possibly delete it?

rm -rf   <whatever>

literally means "delete everything from <whatever> on down, recursively, without prompting."

I hope you are being very careful about what commands you enter – especially if you are poking around inside system directories, and especially if you are thinking about running a command as superuser, using sudo. Give a "rm -rf" in a bad place, or in a bad way, and you can get into real trouble. E.g., you think you're getting rid of all the files beginning with "trash", but you type an extra space in the command.

rm -rf trash *

This means "delete the file named 'trash', then recursively delete EVERYTHING."