find PATH -maxdepth 1 -type f -delete BUT this won’t prompt you for confirmation or output what it just deleted. Therefore best to run it without the -delete action first and check that they’re the correct files.
The short answer: You can’t push changes to directories (added, removed, etc.) because Git does not track directories on their own. According to the FAQ: Currently the design of the git index (staging area) only permits files to be listed, and nobody competent enough to make the change to allow empty directories has cared enough … Read more
Bash supports all sorts of wildcards and expansions. Your exact case would be handled by brace expansion, like so: $ rm -rf abc.log.2012-03-{14,27,28} The above would expand to a single command with all three arguments, and be equivalent to typing: $ rm -rf abc.log.2012-03-14 abc.log.2012-03-27 abc.log.2012-03-28 It’s important to note that this expansion is done … Read more
rm -rf some_dir -r “recursive” -f “force” (suppress confirmation messages) Be careful!
You are actually piping rm‘s output to the input of find. What you want is to use the output of find as arguments to rm: find -type f -name ‘*.sql’ -mtime +15 | xargs rm xargs is the command that “converts” its standard input into arguments of another program, or, as they more accurately put … Read more
The main use of -f is to force the removal of files that would not be removed using rm by itself (as a special case, it “removes” non-existent files, thus suppressing the error message). You can also just redirect the error message using $ rm file.txt 2> /dev/null (or your operating system’s equivalent). You can … Read more
This will delete all the files in a directory (and below) that are size zero. find /tmp -size 0 -print -delete If you just want a particular file; if [ ! -s /tmp/foo ] ; then rm /tmp/foo fi
If the target directory is empty, use find, filter with only directories, filter by name, execute rmdir: find . -type d -name a -exec rmdir {} \; If you want to recursively delete its contents, replace -exec rmdir {} \; with -delete or -prune -exec rm -rf {} \;. Other answers include details about these … Read more
find [path] -type f -not -name ‘textfile.txt’ -not -name ‘backup.tar.gz’ -delete If you don’t specify -type f find will also list directories, which you may not want. Or a more general solution using the very useful combination find | xargs: find [path] -type f -not -name ‘EXPR’ -print0 | xargs -0 rm — for example, … Read more