In bash all I know is that rmdir directoryname will remove the directory but only if it's empty. Is there a way to force remove subdirectories?

Jul 16, 2023 · 3 I have a directory that contains files and other directories. I need to delete then all in one command, but without asking me for each file if I'm sure that i want to delete i; there is any command …

I am trying to remove all files and subdirectories in a directory. I used rm -r to remove all files, but I want to remove all files and subdirectories, excluding the top directory itself. For exam...

Apr 7, 2015 · I have found the command to delete files older than 5 days in a folder find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \\; But how do I also do this for subdirectories in that folder?

It will also delete old files in a directory with newer files. This may result in empty directories staying 8 more days since deletion of a files updates the directory.

Also note that even if the directory was empty, os.remove would fail again, because the correct function is os.rmdir .

How do I delete everything in a directory, including hidden files and directories? Right now, I use the following: rm -rf * rm -rf .*

I have a directory that contains a bunch of sub-directories, .zip files, and other random files not contained within a sub-directory. I'd like a command line script to remove all sub-directories from …

May 4, 2009 · That command deletes all the files and directories in the current directory and never prompts you to confirm you really want to do that. -f is particularly dangerous if you run the command …

Feb 11, 2019 · This directory contains two files (file1 & file2) I initially though that only write access was needed (on the directory) for me to be able to delete/remove a file via (rm udir/file1) but the rm …