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Improve this questionFrom a terminal window:
When I use the rm
command it can only remove files.
rmdir
command it only removes empty folders.
If I have a directory nested with files and folders within folders with files and so on, is there a way to delete all the files and folders without all the strenuous command typing?
If it makes a difference, I am using the Mac Bash shell from a terminal, not Microsoft DOS or Linux.
rm -rf some_dir
-r "recursive" -f "force" (suppress confirmation messages)
Be careful!
rm -rf *
Would remove everything (folders & files) in the current directory.
But be careful! Only execute this command if you are absolutely sure, that you are in the right directory.
Yes, there is. The -r
option tells rm
to be recursive, and remove the entire file hierarchy rooted at its arguments; in other words, if given a directory, it will remove all of its contents and then perform what is effectively an rmdir
.
The other two options you should know are -i
and -f
. -i
stands for interactive; it makes rm
prompt you before deleting each and every file. -f
stands for force; it goes ahead and deletes everything without asking. -i
is safer, but -f
is faster; only use it if you're absolutely sure you're deleting the right thing. You can specify these with -r
or not; it's an independent setting.
And as usual, you can combine switches: rm -r -i
is just rm -ri
, and rm -r -f
is rm -rf
.
Also note that what you're learning applies to bash
on every Unix OS: OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, etc. In fact, rm
's syntax is the same in pretty much every shell on every Unix OS. OS X, under the hood, is really a BSD Unix system.
I was looking for a way to remove all files in a directory except for some directories, and files, I wanted to keep around. I devised a way to do it using find:
find -E . -regex './(dir1|dir2|dir3)' -and -type d -prune -o -print -exec rm -rf {} \;
Essentially it uses regex to select the directories to exclude from the results then removes the remaining files.
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