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 …

Dec 16, 2024 · Now, if you want to delete a directory, you can do so with rm -r /path/to/directory. So, for example, to delete the tutorial directory (assuming that is a directory, you can confirm by running ls …

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.

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?

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...

95 I used the below command to delete files older than a year. find /path/* -mtime +365 -exec rm -rf {} \; But now I want to delete all files whose modified time is older than 01 Jan 2014. How do I do this in …

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

You should probably rename the question to something more accurate, like "Efficiently delete large directory containing thousands of files." In order to delete a directory and its contents, recursion is …

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 …