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Commands using rm

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ls -ai | grep filename | find . -inum `awk '{print $1}'` -exec rm {} \;
2011-02-04 10:29:54
User: YogiBare
Functions: find grep ls rm
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delete a file and links based on inode number.

This command, when run from the directory containing "filename", will remove the file and any hard or symbolic links to the file.

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wget http://www.discogs.com/search?q=724349691704 -O foobar &> /dev/null ; grep \/release\/ foobar | head -2 | tail -1 | sed -e 's/^<div>.*>\(.*\)<\/a><\/div>/\1/' ; rm foobar
2011-01-30 23:34:54
User: TetsuyO
Functions: grep head rm sed tail wget
Tags: sed wget grep discogs UPC
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Find artist and title of a music cd, UPC code given (first result only)

Substitute that 724349691704 with an UPC of a CD you have at hand, and (hopefully) this oneliner should return the $Artist - $Title, querying discogs.com.

Yes, I know, all that head/tail/grep crap can be improved with a single sed command, feel free to send "patches" :D

Enjoy!

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rm *[!teste0,teste1,teste2]
2011-01-25 22:00:29
User: unixmonkey14106
Functions: rm
Tags: grep rm
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Remove all the files except abc in the directory

Remove all arquives except the list.

Can't have space between the commas.

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rm *[!abc]
2011-01-25 19:41:41
User: Vilemirth
Functions: rm
Tags: grep rm
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Remove all the files except abc in the directory

Bash method to remove all files but "abc".

It would be 'rm *~abc' in Zsh.

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unjar () { mkdir -p /tmp/unjar/$1 ; unzip -d /tmp/unjar/$1 $1 *class 1>/dev/null && find /tmp/unjar/$1 -name *class -type f | xargs jad -ff -nl -nonlb -o -p -pi99 -space -stat ; rm -r /tmp/unjar/$1 ; }
2011-01-18 16:54:42
User: return13
Functions: find mkdir rm xargs
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decompiler for jar files using jad
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echo '<?php echo str_rot13 ("Hello World") ?>' > hw.php && php hw.php && rm hw.php
2011-01-04 21:15:19
User: IsraelTorres
Functions: echo rm
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a simple bash one-liner to create php file and call php function

created and tested on:

ProductName: Mac OS X

ProductVersion: 10.6.5

BuildVersion: 10H574

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for i in ~/.adobe ~/.macromedia ; do ( rm $i/ -rf ; ln -s /dev/null $i ) ; done
2010-12-29 13:23:48
User: mhs
Functions: ln rm
Tags: flash LSO cookies
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Stop Flash from tracking everything you do.

Brute force way to block all LSO cookies on a Linux system with the non-free Flash browser plugin. Works just fine for my needs. Enjoy.

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rm -rf !(@(file1|file2|...))
2010-12-18 11:25:12
User: unixmonkey14106
Functions: rm
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Remove all files except list
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find . -depth -name .svn -type d -exec rm -fr {} \;
2010-12-16 17:16:23
User: tebeka
Functions: find rm
Tags: find rm
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Remove all .svn folders

-depth argument will cause find to do a "depth first" tree search, this will eliminate the "No such file or directory" error messages

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find . -name .svn -type d |xargs rm -rf
2010-12-16 02:17:48
User: NathanQu
Functions: find rm xargs
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Remove all .svn folders
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find . -name .svn -type d -exec rm -rf '{}' +
2010-12-15 19:14:24
User: minnmass
Functions: find rm
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Remove all .svn folders

With the plus instead of semicolon, find builds the (eg.) rm command like xargs does - invokes as few extra processes as possible.

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find . -name .svn -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;
2010-12-15 18:51:08
User: PhillipNordwall
Functions: find rm
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Remove all .svn folders

Removing .svn directories without a pipe

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rm !(file_to_keep_undeleted)
2010-12-15 13:31:06
User: strzel_a
Functions: rm
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Takes all file except file between !()

Go to tmp :

cd /tmp; mkdir retmp; cd retmp

Create 10 files :

for i in {1..10}; do touch test$i; done

Remove all files except test10 :

rm !(test10)

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shopt -s globstar; rm -rfv **/.svn
2010-12-15 09:36:43
User: depesz
Functions: rm
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Remove all .svn folders
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find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
2010-12-15 09:20:53
User: strzel_a
Functions: find rm xargs
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Remove all .svn folders
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rm **/*.htm
2010-11-25 17:28:55
User: unixmonkey13930
Functions: rm
Tags: find rm
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recursive remove all htm files

expands through shell and not find

but may hits the limit of max argument size for rm

(thus: for f in **/*.htm;do rm $f;done

but then I prefer the find command ;)

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rm -rf *.htm
2010-11-25 14:37:22
User: unixmonkey2363
Functions: rm
Tags: find rm
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recursive remove all htm files
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rm -rf `find . -type f -name *.htm`
2010-11-25 12:46:33
User: miccaman
Functions: rm
Tags: find rm
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recursive remove all htm files
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find . -empty -type f -execdir rm -f {} +
2010-11-17 14:15:47
User: maffo7
Functions: find rm
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Recursively remove 0kb files from a directory

This command will remove only files, not directories: if you wish to remove both directories and files, just remove '-type f' from command above

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ls | grep .gz >> list.txt && cat list.txt | while read x ; do gunzip -d $x ; done && rm -rf list.txt
2010-11-17 11:06:02
User: maccu
Functions: cat grep gunzip ls read rm
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gunzip all .gz file in current dir

gunzip all .gz file in current dir

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rm -f `find ./ | grep "\.\_.*"`
2010-11-16 20:52:33
User: edfuh
Functions: grep rm
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remove OSX resource forks ._ files

Mac OSX creates resource forks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork) for every file, which are extremely annoying when transferring projects over to an Ubuntu server for instance

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find . -type d -name .svn -execdir rm -rf {} +
2010-11-15 08:54:56
User: maffo7
Functions: find rm
Tags: bash .svn
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Recursively remove .svn directories from a local repository
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iptables-save > firewall.conf; rm -f /etc/network/if-up.d/iptables; echo '#!/bin/sh' > /etc/network/if-up.d/iptables; echo "iptables-restore < firewall.conf" >> /etc/network/if-up.d/iptables; chmod +x /etc/network/if-up.d/iptables
2010-11-13 23:58:28
User: Alz
Functions: chmod echo iptables iptables-save rm
Tags: sudo iptables
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Persistent saving of iptables rules

a simple command in order to make iptables rules permanent, run @ sudo!

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mv * .[0-9a-Z]* ../; cd ..; rm -r $OLDPWD
2010-11-12 11:03:58
User: Elisiano
Functions: cd mv rm
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move contents of the current directory to the parent directory, then remove current directory.

I think this is less resource consuming than the previous examples

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rm *.txt <TAB> <TAB>
2010-11-04 13:58:15
User: boschi
Functions: rm
Tags: wildcard glob expansion
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prevent accidents while using wildcards

alternative for "echo rm *.txt". Just doubletab the command you are willing to use and it will show you the affected files.

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