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Remove all regular files from the current directory tree whose names do not end with "ignore1" or "ignore2" | find . -type f -not -name '*ignore1' -o -not -name '*ignore2' | xargs rm |
Remove all regular files from the current directory tree whose names do not end with "txt" | find . -type f -not -name '*txt' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -- |
Remove all regular files in the current directory | find ./ -type f -exec rm -rf {} \; |
Remove all regular files named "Waldo" in the ~/Books directory tree | find ~/Books -type f -name Waldo -exec rm {} \; |
Remove all regular files under $DIR directory tree that were accessed more than 5 days ago | find "$DIR" -type f -atime +5 -exec rm {} \; |
Remove all regular files under '/var/log/remote' directory tree that have not been modified in the last 14 days where day count starts from today | find /var/log/remote/ -daystart -mtime +14 -type f -exec rm {} \; |
Remove all regular files under and below directory "$DIR" that were last accessed more than 5 days ago | find "$DIR" -type f -atime +5 -exec rm {} \; |
Remove all regular files with extensions php, css, ini, txt from directory tree /old/WordPress/ | find /old/WordPress/ -type f -regex ".*\.\(php\|css\|ini\|txt\)" -exec rm {} \; |
Remove all regular non-hidden files modified more than 7 days ago and residing in the /tmp directory tree | find /tmp -type f -name '*' -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f |
Remove all spaces from standard input | tr -d ' ' |
Remove all subdirectories of the current directory, except for "bar", "foo", "a", and "b" | find . -maxdepth 1 -type d \( ! -name "bar" -a ! -name "foo" -a ! -name "a" -a ! -name "b" \) -delete |
remove all text files from the current folder | find -name "*.txt" | xargs rm |
remove all text files from the current folder. Print0 is used to handle files whose names have only spaces or those files which have newlines in their names | find -name "*.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 rm |
Remove all text files in the home directory with confirmation | find $HOME/. -name *.txt -ok rm {} \; |
Remove all tmp/*.mp3 files | find tmp -maxdepth 1 -name '*.mp3' -maxdepth 1 | xargs -n1 rm |
Remove all tmp/*.mp3 files | find tmp -maxdepth 1 -name '*.mp3' -maxdepth 1 | xargs rm |
Remove all tmp/*.mp3 files | find tmp -maxdepth 1 -name *.mp3 -print0 | xargs -0 rm |
Removes all top-level *.pdf files in a current folder. | rm -f *.pdf |
Removes all top-level empty folders within the current folder. | ls | xargs rmdir |
Remove all vmware-*.log files under current directory | find . -name "vmware-*.log" -exec rm '{}' \; |
Remove all vmware-*.log files under current directory | find . -name vmware-*.log -delete |
Remove all vmware-*.log files under current directory | find . -name vmware-*.log | xargs rm |
Remove all white space from "infile.txt" and wrap each line to 80 characters | cat infile.txt | tr -d "[:space:]" | fold -80 |
Remove containing directories and suffix ".wiki" from specified path, output the result. | basename /home/jsmith/base.wiki .wiki |
Remove directories in /media/1Tb/videos modified more than 7 days ago | find /media/1Tb/videos -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +7 -exec rm -rf {} \; |
Remove duplicate phrases and keep the original order of lines in "$infile" | nl -w 8 "$infile" | sort -k2 -u | sort -n | cut -f2 |
Remove each unique item listed on standard input and do nothing if empty | sort | uniq -u | xargs -r rm |
Remove empty directories | find -type d -exec rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty {} + ; |
Remove empty directories from the current directory tree | find . -depth -empty -type d -delete |
Remove empty directories from directory tree /srv/${x} | find /srv/${x} -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \; |
Removes empty folder 'edi' and 'edw'. | rmdir edi edw |
Removes empty folder, and hides error message if one is not empty. | rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty $newBaseDir/Data/NewDataCopy |
Remove empty folder, and skip error message if one is not empty. | rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty newBaseDir/Data/NewDataCopy |
Remove ESC key bind | bind -r '\e' |
Removes everything from current folder but '*ddl*' and '*docs*' files. | ls -1|grep -v -e ddl -e docs| xargs rm -rf |
Remove everything in a current folder prompting user on each action. | rm -ri * |
Remove everything in a current folder without prompting. | find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf |
Remove everything in a current folder without prompting. | rm -rf * |
Removes files 'junk1', 'junk2', 'junk3'. | rm junk1 junk2 junk3 |
Remove files cart4, cart5, cart6 in directory ~/junk | find ~/junk -name 'cart[4-6]' -exec rm {} \; |
Remove files erroneously named `-F' | find . -name "-F" -exec rm {} \; |
Remove files from the file system that are owned by nobody | find / -nouser -exec rm {} + |
Remove files from the file system that are owned by nobody | find / -nouser -exec rm {} \; |
Remove files from the file system that are owned by nobody, asking the user before each removal | find / -nouser -ok rm {} \; |
Remove files from the home directory tree that were last accessed more than 100 days ago | find ~ -atime +100 -delete |
Remove the files from the home directory tree that were last accessed more than 100 days ago, with confirmation | find ~/ -atime +100 -exec rm -i {} ; |
Remove files in the current directory tree modified more than 31 days ago recursively | find . -type f -mtime +31 -print0 | xargs -0 -r rm -f |
Remove files in the current directory tree whose names match pattern "file?" | find . -name "file?" -exec rm -vf {} \; |
Remove files matching pattern '*-*x*.*' from the current directory tree | find -name '*-*x*.*' | xargs rm -f |
Remove files named "core" from the /work directory tree and write their names to /dev/stderr (the standard error | find /work \( -fprint /dev/stderr \) , \( -name 'core' -exec rm {} \; \) |
Remove the files or directories 'bin/node', 'bin/node-waf', 'include/node', 'lib/node', 'lib/pkgconfig/nodejs.pc' and 'share/man/man1/node' with superuser privilege | sudo rm -rf bin/node bin/node-waf include/node lib/node lib/pkgconfig/nodejs.pc share/man/man1/node |
Remove the files or directories 'bin/node', 'bin/node-waf', 'include/node', 'lib/node', 'lib/pkgconfig/nodejs.pc' and 'share/man/man1/node.1' | rm -r bin/node bin/node-waf include/node lib/node lib/pkgconfig/nodejs.pc share/man/man1/node.1 |
Remove files that are less than 1MB in size under current directory | find . -size -1M -exec rm {} \; |
Remove files that are less than 1MB in size under current directory | find . -type f -size -1M -exec rm {} + |
Remove files under /mnt/zip matching "*prets copy" with confirmation | find /mnt/zip -name "*prefs copy" -print0 | xargs -0 -p /bin/rm |
Remove files under current directory that contains white space in their name | find . -name "* *" -exec rm -f {} \; |
Remove files under current directory with inode number $inum | find . -inum $inum -exec rm {} \; |
Remove files whose names match regular expression '^.*/[A-Za-z]+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.[A-Za-z]+$' from the current directory tree | find -regex '^.*/[A-Za-z]+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.[A-Za-z]+$' | xargs echo rm -f |
Remove files whose names start with `Foo' | find . -type f -name "Foo*" -exec rm {} \; |
Remove file with inode number 31246 | find . -inum 31246 -exec rm [] ';' |
Remove the file with inode number 752010 | find -inum 752010 -exec rm {} \; |
Removes first and last parts of path $path and saves the result in 'finalName' variable. | finalName=$(basename -- "$(dirname -- "$path")") |
Removes first and last parts of path $path and saves the result in 'finalName' variable. | finalName=$(dirname ${path#*/}) |
Removes first and last parts of path 'test/90_2a5/Windows' and prints the result. | echo 'test/90_2a5/Windows' | xargs dirname | xargs basename |
Remove from the current directory tree all the regular files which have a dot in their names and contain string "<img-name>-<width:integer>x<height:integer>.<file-ext> syntax" | find . -name "*.*" -type f -exec grep -l '<img-name>-<width:integer>x<height:integer>.<file-ext> syntax' {} \; | xargs rm -f |
Remove gitlab.site.org from root's known hosts file. | ssh-keygen -f "/root/.ssh/known_hosts" -R gitlab.site.org |
Remove junk files modified more than 31 days ago recursively | find /path/to/junk/files -type f -mtime +31 -exec rm -f {} \; |
Remove junk files modified more than 31 days ago recursively | find /path/to/junk/files -type f -mtime +31 -print0 | xargs -0 -r rm -f |
Remove the last two components (directories) of $path | echo $path | rev | cut -d'/' -f4- | rev |
Removes the last 2 lines from a file | head -n -2 myfile.txt |
Remove the last 2 tab-separated fields of each line in file pointed to by filename | cat $filename | rev | cut -c 3- | rev |
Remove last two underscore-delimited fields and following characters in "t1_t2_t3_tn1_tn2.sh" keeping only "t1_t2_t3" | echo t1_t2_t3_tn1_tn2.sh | rev | cut -d_ -f3- | rev |
removes last N lines from file.txt | head --lines=-N file.txt |
Remove lines matching "kpt#" from "data.txt" and add left-justified line numbers | grep -v 'kpt#' data.txt | nl -nln |
Remove Mac OS X Desktop Services Store files | find . -name ".DS_Store" -exec rm {} \; |
Remove newline characters from "file.txt" | paste -sd "" file.txt |
Remove the path $1 from the PATH environment variable | PATH=$(echo $PATH | tr ":" "\n" | grep -v $1 | tr "\n" ":") |
Removes resursively all files and folders named ".DS_Store". | find . -name ".DS_Store" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf |
Removes resursively all files and folders named "Thumbs.db", ignoring case distincts. | find . -iname "Thumbs.db" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf |
Remove recursively Emacs backup files in the current directory | find . -name '*~' -print0 | xargs -0 rm |
Remove regular files changed more than 15 days ago from the /tmp directory tree | find /tmp/ -ctime +15 -type f -exec rm {} \; |
Remove the regular files from the current directory that were last modified on November, 22 | find -maxdepth 1 -type f -newermt "Nov 22" \! -newermt "Nov 23" -delete |
Remove the regular files from the current directory tree that were last modified on November, 21 | find -type f -newermt "Nov 21" ! -newermt "Nov 22" -delete |
Remove regular files whose names match Perl regular expression '\w+-\d+x\d+\.\w+$' from the current directory tree | find -type f | grep -P '\w+-\d+x\d+\.\w+$' | xargs rm |
Remove sess_* files that were modified more than 2 days ago | find sess_* -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \; |
Remove spaces from output of "echo aa | wc -l" | echo aa | wc -l | tr -d ' ' |
Remove symbolic links and get absolute path of "${the_stuff_you_test}" and save to variable "DIR_PATH" | DIR_PATH=`readlink -f "${the_stuff_you_test}"` |
remove top-level domain (.com, .org) from URL's in urllist.txt | rev urllist.txt | cut -d. -f 2- | rev |
Remove with prompting all files starting in /mydir that have not been accessed in over 100 days | find /mydir -atime +100 -ok rm {} \; |
Rename "/usr/bin/php" to "/usr/bin/~php" | sudo mv /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/~php |
Rename "Tux.png" to ".Tux.png" | mv Tux.png .Tux.png |
Rename "blah1" to "blah1-new" | mv blah1 blah1-new |
Rename "blah2" to "blah2-new" | mv blah2 blah2-new |
Rename "fghfilea" to "jklfilea" | mv fghfilea jklfilea |
Rename "file0001.txt" to "1.txt" | mv file0001.txt 1.txt |
Rename "new" to "old" and backup to "old.old" if "old" exists | mv new old -b -S .old |
Rename "new" to "old" and make a backup if "old" exists | mv new old -b |
Rename "original.filename" to "new.original.filename" | mv original.filename new.original.filename |
Rename "original.filename" to "new.original.filename" | mv {,new.}original.filename |
Rename "svnlog.py" to "svnlog" | mv svnlog.py svnlog |
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