Diskussion:Rm

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Dateien oder Verzeichnisse entfernen

Linux bietet verschiedene Möglichkeiten, Dateien und Verzeichnisse basierend auf Dateinamenmustern, Zeit, Größe, Eigentümerschaft, Berechtigungen oder Sicherheitsanforderungen zu entfernen

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remove a file without confirmation

rm -f my.txt

remove all files with a given extension

rm *.log

remove all files starting with a given prefix

rm temp.*

remove an empty directory (same as rmdir empty_dir)

rm -d empty_dir 

remove a non-empty directory

rm-r non_empty_dir

remove all files in a directory but keep the directory

rm -r mydir/*

remove everything except my.txt and my_dir

rm -r !(my.txtlmy_dir)

remove all hidden files in current directory

rm .[*.]* 

remove a file starting with a special character (e.g. "-")

rm ./-filetxt 

find & remove all files older than 7 days

find.-type f-mtime +7 -delete 

find & remove file accessed within 24 hours

find.-type f-atime-1-delete

find & remove all zero-byte files

find.-type f-empty -delete 

find & remove all empty directories

find.-type d -empty-delete 

find & remove files bigger than 100MB

find.-type f-size +100M -delete 

find & remove files owned by user "dan"

find.-type f-user dan -delete 

find & remove files with permission 777

find.-type f -perm 0777 -delete 

remove non-empty dirs

find.-type d-name "pattern" -execrm-r{}+ 

remove file by its inode number (12345)

find..-inum 12345 -exec rm -f{} + 

remove files with setuid bit set

find.-type f -perm /4000 -exec rm -f{}+

find and remove top-5 biggest files (when filenames do not have spaces)

find.-type f-exec du -b {} + |sort-nr head -5 | awk {print $2}' |xargs rm  

find & remove all symlinks (broken or valid)

find.-typel-delete 

find & remove all broken symlinks

find.-xtypel-delete 

remove one single file (cannot handle multiple files)

unlink file.txt 

securely remove a file by overwriting content multiple times

srm file.txt 

overwrite file multiple times and remove a file

shred -u file.txt