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- What is the difference between rm -r and rm -f? - Super User
What do you mean they give the same result? rm -r emptydir removes that directory, rm -f emptydir does not These are two completely different command line options, each doing whatever its documentation says is doing
- linux - rm -rf takes a long time - Super User
I have a directory aggregated in which I have 7550 sub-dirs each containing 250 files aggregated has 5 5GB in total I've tried deleting aggregated via rm -rf aggregated and it is taking hours
- What is the equivalent of rm -rf in Powershell? - Super User
As we all know, on a *nix system, rm -rf some_directory removes some_directory and all files beneath it recursively, without asking for confirmation What is the equivalent of this command in
- makefile - Should make contain `-rm` or `rm -f` - Super User
But rm does In this case, you would use the - prefix vs the -f flag based on whether or not you want rm to complain that the file doesn't exist It's probably a matter of style and preference at this point, but think about your intentions, the file you're deleting, etc
- rm - Remove everything except? - Super User
Possible Duplicate: Remove all files but one with rm In unix, to remove zip files in a directory one can simply type rm * zip How can one remove everything except zip files?
- How do I make rm not give an error if a file doesnt exist?
So rm will warn you if you try to delete a file you don't have write permissions on This is allowed if you have write permissions on the directory but is a little weird, which is why rm normally warns you about it
- How can I block execution of rm -rf * in a Linux shell?
5 Check out safe-rm which is a wrapper for rm that will allow you to set up a list of important directories that cannot be accidentally deleted This won't stop you from accidentally deleting files outside the listed directories, but it will prevent a catastrophe when your subconscious decides to up the ante and do an rm -rf
- bash - When running `rm -rf`, is it possible to exclude certain . . .
For example, I may have a 200G LV mounted at space From there, I will make subdirectories like var_opt and var_log which I can then bind mount to var opt and var log, respectively When doing a cleanup on the 'space' directory, is it possible to exclude directories from an rm -rf running inside space? Example:
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