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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
- linux - Why does it take a long time to delete big files if `rm` can be . . .
I know that that it takes a long time to remove a big file because big files have larger number of blocks to be unlinked But when I interrupt an ongoing rm of a large file, the file is still gone
- 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
- bash - Delete files with regular expression - Super User
I Tried to delete files that starts with A and ends with 2 numbers but It doesn't do a thing What I tried: rm ^A*[0 9]2$ Where am I wrong?
- 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?
- linux - Delete matching files in all subdirectories - Super User
Remove all * swp files underneath the current directory, use the find command in one of the following forms: find -name \* swp -type f -delete The -delete option means find will directly delete the matching files This is the best match to OP's actual question Using -type f means find will only process files find -name \* swp -type f -exec rm -f {} \; find -name \* swp -type f -exec rm
- How to recover a removed file under Linux? - Super User
@Nav, rm is a "dangerous" UNIX Linux command (read $ man rm) Use it with extreme caution With that said, it is a quick way to delete files you are sure of Modern Linux and Unix Desktop Environments do provide with a solution of "Trash Can", so the user easily can recover accidentally deleted files
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