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?

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 …

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 …

Apr 15, 2017 · When I use the rmdir command it only removes empty folders. If I have a directory nested with files and folders within folders with files and so on, is there a way to delete all the files and …

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 …

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...

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

8 If rm cannot remove a symlink, perhaps you need to look at the permissions on the directory that contains the symlink. To remove directory entries, you need write permission on the containing …

Dec 1, 2010 · 44 find . | grep -v "excluded files criteria" | xargs rm This will list all files in current directory, then list all those that don't match your criteria (beware of it matching directory names) and …

Apr 18, 2016 · The above removes the files from your current directory in a fraction of a second, as it doesn't have to recursively handle the subdirectories. The actual removal of the tree from the …