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Commands using rm

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'ls -1 *<pattern>* | while read file; do scp $file user@host:/path/; if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then rm $file; fi; done'
2009-02-06 00:08:06
User: perrefe
Functions: read rm scp
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Search filenames with given pattern; each one is transfered via scp and if succesfull the file is locally deleted. Ideal for filesystem quick maintenance
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find /path/to/dir -type f -mtime +[#] -exec rm -f {} \;
2009-02-05 19:24:13
User: wwest4
Functions: find rm
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Periodic Log Deletion

deletes logs not modified in over [#] days - modify to compress or move, as needed

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find . -type d -name '.svn' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rdf
2009-02-05 17:47:03
User: blue64
Functions: find rm xargs
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Recursively remove .svn directories from the current location
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gcc -Wall -Werror -o prog prog.c || rm -f prog.c
2009-02-05 17:26:51
User: devoid
Functions: gcc rm
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Klingon programming; weak code must die
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for x in `git status | grep deleted | awk '{print $3}'`; do git rm $x; done
2009-02-05 16:32:13
User: codeprimate
Functions: awk grep rm
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Using Git, stage all manually deleted files.
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URL=www.example.com && wget -rq --spider --force-html "http://$URL" && find $URL -type d > url-list.txt && rm -rf $URL
2009-01-27 17:59:08
User: root
Functions: find rm wget
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Retrieve a list of all webpages on a site

This spiders the given site without downloading the HTML content. The resulting directory structure is then parsed to output a list of the URLs to url-list.txt. Note that this can take a long time to run and you make want to throttle the spidering so as to play nicely.

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