Comments on: Delete / Remove a Directory Linux Command

By: harga laptop

harga laptop — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:21:44 +0000

What’s the command to find all files with extension tmp (ex: *.tmp) and then delete them automatically? Thanks

By: syamkumar

syamkumar — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:03:11 +0000

Thanks its very useful.

By: Raghavendra

Raghavendra — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:34:10 +0000

Please guide me If i have mutipal folders in same dir.
like
ls -x
a
b
c
d
f
Now I want delete ..a c d dir.How can I delete in singal command

By: Nitin

Nitin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:04:03 +0000

Thanks :)

By: Rahinur Rahaman

Rahinur Rahaman — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:20:13 +0000

Thanks!

It works for me

By: Terryble

Terryble — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:25:09 +0000

rm -rf

will remove it without any answer needed.

rm -r without (-f for force) will request you a reply to remove each files.
exemple:
rm -r ntop-4.1.0
rm: descend into directory `ntop-4.1.0′? yes
rm: remove regular file `ntop-4.1.0/ntop_win32.h’?

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 18 May 2011 10:26:54 +0000

thanks! save me some time as im new to linux!

By: Duncan Murimi

Duncan Murimi — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:17:20 +0000

Very useful. for permission denied folders add sudo in front.

By: Nisha

Nisha — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:14:04 +0000

Thanks a lot..

By: Sivasangkari

Sivasangkari — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:27:28 +0000

Thanks a lot…it’s very helpful…

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:36:02 +0000

Thanks…! it helps

By: Rakesh

Rakesh — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 05:51:10 +0000

Thank you

By: nagesh

nagesh — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 08:42:16 +0000

cool command…. simply works great,thanks

By: lara

lara — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 03:47:22 +0000

thanks 4 the nice idea about that!.. hehe

By: sandeep choudhary

sandeep choudhary — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:33:31 +0000

i m unsetisfide

By: Miguel Costa

Miguel Costa — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:56:01 +0000

:) tks a lot
You really helped me ;)

By: dana

dana — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 01:48:50 +0000

You have been bailing me out countless of times. Thanks!
:D

By: random

random — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:51:52 +0000

Thanks a lot !!! very effective

By: Frederik

Frederik — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:04:53 +0000

Thanx seems to be very useful however I’m using Slax to access a damaged NTFS drive and am having trouble deleting files from that drive, i can read the files fine however i can’t change permissions for any of the files or folders and the drive is mounted with the ntfs -3g command so it should be editable. i’ve tried the chmod command without luck. any ideas?

Thanks a ton in advance…

By: Esonz

Esonz — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:27:12 +0000

Great! taynk yow!