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Commands using rm

Terminal - Commands using rm - 231 results

find . -type d -name 'CVS' | xargs rm -r

2011-08-10 07:38:51

User: kev

Functions: find rm xargs

Tags: find

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remove all CVS directories

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rm -R `ls | egrep -v 'dir1|dir2|file1'`

2011-08-07 08:34:17

User: killman

Functions: egrep rm

Tags: exclude ls rm

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Delete files and directories from current directory exept those specified

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wget http://somesite.com/somestream.pls; cvlc somestream.pls&sleep 5; rm somestream.pls*

2011-08-04 19:24:18

User: tomjrace

Functions: rm wget

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Play a stream and give back the shell

I wanted to play a song from the shell and get the shell back, I also dont want to store the file if it is not needed.

edit, not sure if I need to mention it... killall vlc to stop it

rm -- -i

2011-07-26 04:00:32

User: merlinblack

Functions: rm

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Specify a file name that starts with hyphen, e.g. "-i"

If you just try rm -i, the file name will be interpreted as a command line switch. Many commands let you use a double hyphen '--' to say 'No more switches, the rest are file names'.

Incidentally having a file named '-i' in a directory where you use rm * will cause rm to act as if you specified '-i' on the command line.

vim -- -v touch -- -t cat -- -c

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find . -name .svn -type d | parallel rm -rf

2011-07-05 00:25:51

User: evandrix

Functions: find rm

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Recursively remove all .svn directories

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rm !(*.txt)

2011-07-02 13:22:23

User: kev

Functions: rm

Tags: rm

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remove all files except *.txt

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for i in *.tar.gz; do tar -x -v -z -f $i && rm -v $i; done

2011-06-25 20:40:44

User: Nichlas

Functions: rm tar

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Decompress all .tar.gz files and remove the compressed .tar.gz

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for i in "*.txt"; do tar -c -v -z -f $i.tar.gz "$i" && rm -v "$i"; done

2011-06-25 20:39:06

User: Nichlas

Functions: rm tar

Tags: Batch Utilities compress tar.gz

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Compress all .txt files to .txt.ta.gz and remove the original .txt

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function rm { workingdir=$( pwdx $$ | awk '{print $2}' ) /usr/bin/rm $* echo "rm $* issued at $(date) by the user $(who am i| awk '{print $1} ') in the directory ${workingdir}" >> /tmp/rm.out }

2011-06-22 14:47:38

User: soulonfire

Functions: awk echo rm

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log rm commands

Sometimes, it is annoying to find your files or directories missing. If you want to log all the rm commands you can put this in /etc/profile.

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adobenospy() { for I in ~/.adobe ~/.macromedia ; do ( [ -d $I ] && rm -rf $I ; ln -s -f /dev/null $I ) ; done }

2011-06-08 14:34:52

User: Timothy

Functions: ln rm

Tags: flash LSO cookies

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Stop adobe and Flash from tracking everything you do.

A safer way to block adobe and macromedia flash tracking and spyware

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git ls-files -z -d | xargs -0 git rm --

2011-05-19 14:17:28

User: tweak

Functions: rm xargs

Tags: git xargs

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git-rm for all deleted files, including those with space/quote/unprintable characters in their filename/path

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rm -rf /bin/laden

2011-05-02 09:51:11

User: apadua

Functions: rm

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Today's elimination of a world threat

Appropriate for today.

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for arq in *.png; do size=$(identify $arq | cut -f3 -d" "); [ $size == "280x190" ] || rm $arq ; done

2011-04-22 20:00:05

User: MauricioVieira

Functions: cut rm

Tags: ImageMagick

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Removing images by size

Removes all png files whose geometry is not 280x190 pixels

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yt-pl2mp3() {umph -m 50 $1 | cclive -f mp4_720p; IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b"); for track in $(ls | grep mp4 | awk '{print $0}' | sed -e 's/\.mp4//'); do (ffmpeg -i $track.mp4 -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 320 -f mp3 $track.mp3); done; rm -f *.mp4}

2011-03-20 14:43:20

User: sattellite

Functions: awk echo grep ls rm sed

Tags: youtube mp3 convert download playlist

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Download YouTube music playlist and convert it to mp3 files

umph is parsing video links from Youtube playlists ( http://code.google.com/p/umph/ )

cclive is downloading videos from Youtube ( http://cclive.sourceforge.net/ )

Example:

yt-pl2mp3 7AB74822FE7D03E8

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locate munin | xargs rm -r

2011-03-14 11:47:00

User: strzel_a

Functions: locate rm xargs

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Delete all files from a locate output

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rm -r .[!.]*

2011-03-12 23:53:56

User: RanyAlbeg

Functions: rm

Tags: rm dot

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Deal with dot files safely

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rm -rf .[!.]*

2011-03-11 07:39:42

User: Natureshadow

Functions: rm

Tags: rm dot

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Deal with dot files safely

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rm -rf .??*

2011-03-11 07:21:58

User: greggster

Functions: rm

Tags: rm dot

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Deal with dot files safely

rm -rf .* matches ".." and thus one goes up a level and wipes out more than intended.

In bash, .??* safely accomplishes what one intends - remove those .files

The ? matches most characters except "/", thus .?? does not match ../ and so one is safe.

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -Pv "^.$" | sort -rn --field-separator="-" | sed -n '3,$p' | xargs rm -rf

2011-03-08 17:38:26

User: wilmoore

Functions: find grep rm sed sort xargs

Tags: release sort sed find xargs grep directories directory sorting capistrano, pruning prune cleaning

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Clean-up release directories keeping the only the latest two

Deletes capistrano-style release directories (except that there are dashes between the YYYY-MM-DD)

git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch FileToRemove' HEAD

2011-03-04 11:09:39

User: xmonkey

Functions: rm

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Removing sensitive data from the entire repo history.

Removing sensitive data

mv .git .. && rm -rf * && mv ../.git . && mv .git/* . && rmdir .git && git config --bool core.bare true

2011-02-28 17:58:14

User: dinomite

Functions: mv rm rmdir

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Convert an existing Git repo to a bare repo

If you want to turn a Git repo into the origin that folks can push to, you should make it a bare repository. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2199897/git-convert-normal-to-bare-repository

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ps ax > processes && cat processes | egrep "*.exe |*exe]" | awk '{ print $1 }' > pstokill && kill $(cat pstokill) && rm processes && rm pstokill

2011-02-26 16:13:58

User: sxiii

Functions: awk cat egrep kill ps rm

Tags: kill wine exe

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kill all running instances of wine and programs runned by it (exe)

This command kills all wine instances and each EXE application working on a PC.

Here is command info:

1) ps ax > processes = save process list to file named "processes" (we save it because we don't wont egrep to be found in the future)

2) cat processes | egrep "*.exe |*exe]" = shows the file "processes" and after greps for each *.exe and *exe] in it

3) | awk '{ print $1 }' > pstokill = saves processes PID's to file "pstokill" using awk filter

4) kill $(cat pstokill) = kills each PID in file pstokill, which is shown by cat program

5) rm processes && rm pstokill = removes temporary files

site="http://gifbin.com/"; for i in $(wget -qO- "$site"random| sed -r "s/^.*(bin\/.+\.gif).*$/\1/m" | grep "^bin"); do wget -c "$site$i"; filename=`basename $i`; [ `identify $filename | wc -l` -gt 1 ] || rm -f $filename; done

2011-02-15 10:05:37

User: az

Functions: grep rm sed wc wget

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Download random gifs from gifbin.com

Download a bunch of random animated gifs from http://gifbin.com/

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ls > ls; paste ls ls > ren; nano ren; sed 's/^/mv /' ren|bash; rm ren ls

2011-02-08 17:07:13

User: romulusnr

Functions: ls paste rm sed

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Rename files in a directory in an edited list fashion

Instead of tedious manual mv commands and tabbing, this routine creates a file listing all the filenames in the PWD twice, edit the second instance on each line to the new name, then save the file, the routine does the rest. Feel free to replace nano with your holy war editor of choice.

You will get a lot of "mv: 'x' and 'x' are the same file" warnings, these could be cleaned up but the routine works.

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rmall_but() { declare -A keep;for arg;do keep[${arg%/}]=1;done;for file in *;do [[ ${keep[$file]} ]] || rm -rf "$file";done; }

2011-02-05 14:38:54

User: RanyAlbeg

Functions: file rm

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Using associative array to remove all files and directories under PWD except "$1", "$2", "$3",..."$n"

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