CHANGELOG Version 1.1 removedir () { echo "You are about to delete the current directory $PWD Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=$(echo "$PWD" | sed 's/ /\\ /g'); foo=$(basename "$blah"); rm -Rf ../$foo/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; } BUG FIX: Folders with spaces Version 1.0 removedir () { echo "You are about to delete the current directory $PWD Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=`basename $PWD`; rm -Rf ../$blah/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; } BUG FIX: Hidden directories (.dotdirectory) Version 0.9 rmdir () { echo "You are about to delete the current directory $PWD. Are you sure?"; read human; if [[ "$human" = "yes" ]]; then blah=`basename $PWD`; rm -Rf ../$blah/ && cd ..; else echo "I'm watching you" | pv -qL 10; fi; } Removes current directory with recursive and force flags plus basic human check. When prompted type yes 1. [user@host ~]$ ls foo bar 2. [user@host ~]$ cd foo 3. [user@host foo]$ removedir 4. yes 5. rm -Rf foo/ 6. [user@host ~]$ 7. [user@host ~]$ ls bar Show Sample Output

Recursively remove .svn directories from the current location.

I constantly need to work on my local computer, thus I need a way to download the codeigniter user guide, this is the wget way I figured.

Compresses each file individually, creating a $fileneame.tar.gz and removes the uncompressed version, usefull if you have lots of files and don't want 1 huge archive containing them all. you could replace ls with ls *.pdf to just perform the action on pdfs for example.

Shorter

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

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 ;)

created and tested on: ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.6.5 BuildVersion: 10H574 Show Sample Output

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.

executed on SLES 11.2

This is useful when you are uploading svn project files to a new git repo.

sed '$ d' foo.txt.tmp ...deletes last line from the file

This command deletes all files in all subfolders if their name or path contains "deleteme". To dry-run the command without actually deleting files run: find . | grep deleteme | while read line; do echo rm $line; done

Deletes thousands of files at one go, I'm not able to recall the exact # of files that rm can delete at one go(apprx. around 7000.)

This is quite usefull in Unix system share via NFS or AppleTalk with OSX clients that like to populate your filesystem with these pesky files

avoid rm to be recursive until you complete the command: put the -rf at the end!

plays with bash arrays. instead of storing the list of files in a temp file, this stores the list in ram, retrieves the last element in the array (the last html file), then removes it.

This deals nicely with files having special characters in the file name (space ' or "). Parallel is from https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/

Remove all arquives except the list. Can't have space between the commas. Show Sample Output

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