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- What is the difference between rm -r and rm -f? - Super User
What do you mean they give the same result? rm -r emptydir removes that directory, rm -f emptydir does not These are two completely different command line options, each doing whatever its documentation says is doing
- rm: cannot remove `dir-name: Directory not empty - Super User
rm: cannot remove `dir-name': Directory not empty Ask Question Asked 1 year, 11 months ago Modified 1 year, 11 months ago
- find: -exec rm {} \; vs. -delete - why is the former widely . . .
The -exec rm is not recommendable on many systems, for reasons I gave - lack of support, or a desire to restrict process count "widely recommended" does not mean ideal for all circumstances, and failing to address that assumption seems irresponsible
- unix - Why does \rm work but rm doesnt? - Super User
usually the rm command is aliased to rm -i You can remove that alias if you don't need it by doing rm='rm', also to make it automatic take a look at bash configuration files
- Will rm -rf * remove all files folders in the current directory?
8 Yes rm -rf will only delete files and folders in the current directory, and will not ascend up the file tree rm will also not follow symlinks and delete the files they point to, so you don't accidentally prune other parts of your filesystem
- What is the equivalent of rm -rf in Powershell? - Super User
As we all know, on a *nix system, rm -rf some_directory removes some_directory and all files beneath it recursively, without asking for confirmation What is the equivalent of this command in Powershell?
- rm - Remove everything except? - Super User
Possible Duplicate: Remove all files but one with rm In unix, to remove zip files in a directory one can simply type rm * zip How can one remove everything except zip files?
- linux - rm -rf takes a long time - Super User
I have a directory aggregated in which I have 7550 sub-dirs each containing 250 files aggregated has 5 5GB in total I've tried deleting aggregated via rm -rf aggregated and it is taking hours
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