Comments on: Recursively delete certain files

By: Nataliya Dimitrova

Nataliya Dimitrova — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:46:03 +0000

This command tries to delete all the files at all. I tried it with user that is not superuser, fortunately. That is why I am saying “try”. What if I want to try to delete files recursively but in the dir, that I am in.

By: User

User — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:39:00 +0000

Jim- prepend the space with a backslash. Example:
/home/user/My Folder With Spaces/file.txt

By: Jim Power

Jim Power — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:30:00 +0000

How can I make this work if I have directories/files with spaces in the name?

By: daffodil

daffodil — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:30:00 +0000

if i have file list say FILE_LIST=”a.txt b.txt c.txt” pls tell me how to delete this with one command. i.e not using any loops.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:51:00 +0000

Why does the following not work, recursively?

rm -vR folderToStartAt/*ext