You can use the -i flag: rm -i someFile.txt If you’re concerned you may forget to do this, you could alias the rm command: alias rm=”rm -i” If you place this alias in one of the files sourced when you start a session (e.g., .bashrc), you’ll have it available in all your future terminal sessions.
Try to delete it with root user or use sudo, if you are in trouble Use rm -rf dir with root account and it will be deleted, since you should be facing a permissions issue.
git rm -r –cached ~/.vim/* fatal: pathspec ‘.vim/colors’ did not match any files 1/ You do not need the ‘*‘: git rm -r –cached ~/.vim will take care of any tracked sub-files. 2/ fatal: pathspec ‘.vim/colors’ did not match any files simply means one of your commands you tried before the one listed in 1/ … Read more
It should be: find . -name “*-e” -exec rm ‘{}’ \; Or better: find . -name “*-e” -exec rm ‘{}’ + As per man find: -exec utility [argument …] {} + Same as -exec, except that “{}” is replaced with as many pathnames as possible for each invocation of utility. This behaviour is similar to … Read more
Solution for your command: grep -l email@example.com * | xargs rm Or for file in $(grep -l email@example.com *); do rm -i $file; # ^ prompt for delete done
You have it backward, the correct way is: yes | rm -r trunk But the better command would be to have rm not ask you in the first place with: rm -rf trunk
find . -name ‘*car*’ -exec rm -f {} \; or pass the output of your pipeline to xargs: find | grep car | xargs rm -f Note that these are very blunt tools, and you are likely to remove files that you did not intend to remove. Also, no effort is made here to deal … Read more
PowerShell isn’t UNIX. rm -rf is UNIX shell code, not PowerShell scripting. This is the documentation for rm (short for Remove-Item) on PowerShell. This is the documentation for rm on UNIX. See the difference? On UNIX, rm -rf alone is invalid. You told it what to do via rm for remove with the attributes r … Read more
To delete all directories and subdirectories and leave only files in the working directory, I have found this concise command works for me: rm -r */ It makes use of bash wildcard */ where star followed by slash will match only directories and subdirectories.
To expand on @Alex Gitelman’s answer: yes, there’s a difference between “standard input” and the command line. When you type rm a.txt b.txt c.txt, the files you list after rm are known as arguments and are made available to rm through a special variable (called argv internally). The standard input, on the other hand, looks … Read more