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Unable to delete thousands of files within a folder in terminal
I'm trying to delete files inside a certain folder but it's throwing an error:
rm -rf /usr/html/sched/downloads/*
-bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
I searched online and found this solution but ...
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How to remove all directories in a folder in command line?
I want to remove all directories in a folder, no mater the specified directory is empty or not.
Can I do this in command line?
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Delete all files & directories in a folder except one file
I want to delete all files & directories in a folder say 'A'. But except one file in that folder say .keep. I have tried the following command.
find A ! -name '.keep' -type f -exec rm -f {} +
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Using rm for a file in a directory
I'm new using the linux commands and I'm having a problem using the rm command in a makefile.
The makefile is in the /project directory and I want to remove all the files with extension .o that are ...
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what's the difference between rm -rf and rm -r? [closed]
In linux, what is the difference between 'rm -rf' and 'rm -r', both seem to do the same things (delete an entire directory).
Here is a few commands that I ran to test it:
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how to call a command from a bash script in Linux
I am trying to call a command from a script (defined as functions inside .bashrc) as following
the first function hooks the rm command by deleting any file except a file named "forensicfile1"
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How to turn on warning on rm command?
I recently installed Ubuntu and find that when I delete things in terminal using
rm file
there is no warning asking me to confirm the step. I did not use the -f flag. It feels vulnerable to ...
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Linux rm -rf * delete orders? [closed]
I thought rm removes the files in alphabetically, but clearly it's not after my executation.
So, what 's the order of command rm executation?
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How to recover the deleted files using "rm -R" command in linux server? [closed]
I have unfortunately deleted some important files and folders using 'rm -R ' command in Linux server.
Is there any way to recover?
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Remove first a from $HOME/a/a/b/c
I was reading a book on UNIX when I came across this question.
You have a directory structure
$HOME/a/a/b/c
where the first a is empty.
How do you remove it and move the lower directories up?
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how to delete a file started with '-'
How can I delete a file whose name started with '-'?
For example, if I have a file named -a and I delete it with:
rm -a
I will get:
rm: invalid option -- 'a'
Try 'rm --help' for more ...
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Command Line to find and delete Similar files in Linux
I want to find and delete all the "similar files as shown below" recursively from the specified directory of my Linux Server by Using COMMAND LINE....
"file.php?p=10&file=load%2Fnew ...
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How to delete all exe in a pendrive in linux
There are a lot of exe files in my pen-drive (reside in different directories).
How can I delete all the files using Linux command?
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Powershell Command: rm -rf
rm is to remove item, but what is the parameter -rf do or signify?
Whenever I typed help -rf it printed the entire list of available commands in powershell. What happens if you type rm -rf in ...
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