Comments on: Linux / UNIX: Delete a file

By: john

john — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:47:46 +0000

is it possible for rm command to list what files are being deleted without being in interactive mode

for example if I want to delete contents of a directory

rm /directory/*

is there a way to list which files are being deleted WHILE they’re being deleted?

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:00:07 +0000

See how to delete with file starting with a dash:

rm -- '-i'

By: iCyOMiK

iCyOMiK — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:56:10 +0000

rm — -i
read the f*****g manual of rm, you can got it.

By: user

user — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:33:36 +0000

How to delete a file named -i in UNIX ?

By: Ocean

Ocean — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:29:40 +0000

I have a problem that I need a solution to.

How can I find the largest file and remove it with naming the file in Linux/Unix?

Any help would be appreciated.

By: Aram Iskenderian

Aram Iskenderian — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:52:41 +0000

Satheesh,

See my post @ January 21, 2011 (scroll up to see it) and modify the startdate and startdate for your usage.

By: Neelesh

Neelesh — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:00:42 +0000

Hi ,

After ls -lrt in a directory , it will give around 300 files with the most recently created/used file at the bottom. I want to delete the top 120 files from the directory. Can you please help. Thanks :)

By: satheesh

satheesh — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:45:39 +0000

Sry the command is not working for me…

By: satheesh

satheesh — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:44:18 +0000

How to delete few different files using unix rm command. I want to delte thousands of files which are older than 6 months.
Below i gave the command which i have been using the files. But it does work.
Command:
find /My Dir -name ’1309927_sat_0407.price.xls 131011719_sat_0807.price.xls’ -mtime +180 -exec rm -f {} \;

Please help me.

By: Aram Iskenderian

Aram Iskenderian — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:50:27 +0000

Try changing user or group ownership using chown for the files in question and then delete them again.

By: Aram Iskenderian

Aram Iskenderian — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:48:49 +0000

1. Make a copy of the file.
2. Run the following.

$ sort myfile.txt | uniq -uc

By: Rohit Kumar

Rohit Kumar — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:36:41 +0000

Hi
When i am trying to delete a files using rm,rm -f,rm -rf the files still exists in the directory.. I tried deleting it by changing permissions but not done.. Any help is appreciated

By: araa

araa — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:13:44 +0000

Hello,
I want to display duplicate lines in a file, what command to display ?

By: roland

roland — Sat, 21 May 2011 02:11:34 +0000

how can i delete 5 user’s except admin in terminal?

By: Andrej

Andrej — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:55:08 +0000

Hi,

I have created a long list (>4.000 entries) of redundant files that need to be deleted. Typing the command:
xargs rm < iTunesDeleteList

produces an error message:
xargs: unterminated quote.

I tried to replace spaces with "\ " but it didn't work. What should I do to make it work?Typical entry:
/Users/me/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/B.B. King/King Of The Blues [Disc 1]/1-23 Don't Answer The Door, Parts One And Two 1.mp3

Thanks,
Andrej

By: Somnath

Somnath — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:41:42 +0000

How can I delete bunch of text file. I want to delete file for perticular range like
xxx24mar2010.txt to xxx30mar2010.txt. Please suggest.

By: Aram Iskenderian

Aram Iskenderian — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:12:58 +0000

Thanks for the kind words.
I am glad I was able to help. :-)

By: vickram

vickram — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:11:48 +0000

Hi Aram ,

U r Great…Thanx alot for ur comment…it works…appriciated

By: Aram Iskenderian

Aram Iskenderian — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:23:22 +0000

Phil,
The reason you are getting that error is because of the #.

Try the following.
rm \#payroll.txt\# (you can force it not to prompt you by specifying -f)
If you have files with numbers in them, you can always consider ?* wildcards.

By: Aram Iskenderian

Aram Iskenderian — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:20:41 +0000

Hi vickram,

Take a look at my response to another post here by jestin dated January 21, 2011.
All you have to do is just specify the dates.