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Remove current directory

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
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```
#### Use example ####
[user@host Downloads]$ wtzc http://raoulito.info/plugins/pidgin_screenshot/pidgin-sendscreenshot-0.6-3.tar.gz
[user@host pidgin-sendscreenshot-0.6-3]$ ls
aclocal.m4    config.h.in   INSTALL              m4           README
AUTHORS       config.sub    install-sh           Makefile.am  src
build-aux     configure     intltool-extract.in  Makefile.in  VERSION
ChangeLog     configure.ac  intltool-merge.in    missing
config        COPYING       intltool-update.in   NEWS
config.guess  depcomp       ltmain.sh            po
[user@host pidgin-sendscreenshot-0.6-3]$ removedir
You are about to delete the current directory /home/user/Downloads/pidgin-sendscreenshot-0.6-3/ Are you sure?
yes
[user@host Downloads]$
```
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removedir () { echo "Deleting 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; }

oshazard · 2010-01-17 11:34:38 31
Recursively remove .svn directories

Recursively remove .svn directories from the current location.
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rm -rf `find . -name .svn`

jfcalvo · 2010-02-23 08:35:06 5
Download all files under http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/ to the current directory

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.
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wget -r --no-parent http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/ ; mv codeigniter.com/user_guide/* . ; rm -rf codeigniter.com

jimthunderbird · 2010-03-01 02:37:26 3
Individually compress each file in a directory

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

Thingymebob · 2010-03-29 08:10:38 8
Remove Thumbs.db files from folders

Shorter
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rm -fr `find . -name Thumbs.db`

LrdShaper · 2010-08-18 03:27:05 5
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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rm -f `find ./ | grep "\.\_.*"`

edfuh · 2010-11-16 20:52:33 6
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 **/*.htm

unixmonkey13930 · 2010-11-25 17:28:55 4
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 Show Sample Output
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```
Uryyb Jbeyq
```
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echo '<?php echo str_rot13 ("Hello World") ?>' > hw.php && php hw.php && rm hw.php

IsraelTorres · 2011-01-04 21:15:19 3
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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ls > ls; paste ls ls > ren; nano ren; sed 's/^/mv /' ren|bash; rm ren ls

romulusnr · 2011-02-08 17:07:13 21
Delete all files from a locate output
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locate munin | xargs rm -r

strzel_a · 2011-03-14 11:47:00 4
Compress all .txt files to .txt.ta.gz and remove the original .txt
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for i in "*.txt"; do tar -c -v -z -f $i.tar.gz "$i" && rm -v "$i"; done

Nichlas · 2011-06-25 20:39:06 5
Convert all the symbolic links in $PWD to copies of the referenced files
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for FILE in `ls -1`; do if [ -L "$FILE" ]; then cp $(readlink "$FILE") ${FILE}_rf; rm -f $FILE; mv ${FILE}_rf "$FILE"; fi; done

unixmonkey1907 · 2012-01-16 16:39:41 6
grep files by date and delete

executed on SLES 11.2
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ls -ltr |grep 'May 12'|awk '{print $9;}'|xargs rm -v

harpo · 2012-06-04 12:31:41 3
Remove .svn dirs

This is useful when you are uploading svn project files to a new git repo.
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find . -name ".svn" -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;

gigo6000 · 2012-08-16 13:04:47 5
Deleting / Ignoring tailer record from the file

sed '$ d' foo.txt.tmp ...deletes last line from the file
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cp foo.txt foo.txt.tmp; sed '$ d' foo.txt.tmp > foo.txt; rm -f foo.txt.tmp

kaushalmehra · 2012-09-13 20:57:40 7
rm all files you grep

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
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find . | grep deleteme | while read line; do rm $line; done

tec · 2009-02-18 00:55:57 8
Delete tens of thousans of files at one go

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.)
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rm -rf `ls | head -5000`

rockon · 2009-02-25 22:52:23 7
Removes Apple "garbage"

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
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find . -name *DS_Store -exec echo rm {} \;

dgomes · 2009-03-11 11:30:55 9
recursively delete .svn folders from a directory
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rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

crashrox · 2009-03-25 15:06:51 10
Recursive when needed

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

ioggstream · 2009-06-30 15:10:31 15
remove the last of all html files in a directory

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.
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a=($(ls *html)) && a=${a[$(expr ${#a[@]} - 1)]} && rm $a

linuxrawkstar · 2009-10-12 16:40:06 5
backup and remove files with access time older than 5 days.

This deals nicely with files having special characters in the file name (space ' or "). Parallel is from https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/
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tar -zcvpf backup_`date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`.tar.gz `find <target> -atime +5 -type f` 2> /dev/null | parallel -X rm -f

unixmonkey8046 · 2010-01-28 12:41:41 3
Remove all the files except abc in the directory

Remove all arquives except the list. Can't have space between the commas. Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls
teste0  teste1  teste2  teste3  teste4  teste5  teste6  teste7  teste8  teste9
$ rm *[!teste0,teste1,teste2]
$ ls
teste0  teste1
```
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rm *[!teste0,teste1,teste2]

unixmonkey14106 · 2011-01-25 22:00:29 5
Download random gifs from gifbin.com

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

az · 2011-02-15 10:05:37 7
remove all files except *.txt
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rm !(*.txt)

kev · 2011-07-02 13:22:23 4
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