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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
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
How do I make rm not give an error if a file doesnt exist? So rm will warn you if you try to delete a file you don't have write permissions on This is allowed if you have write permissions on the directory but is a little weird, which is why rm normally warns you about it
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?
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
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