Commands using rm (301)
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0rmall_but() { declare -A keep;for arg;do keep[${arg%/}]=1;done;for file in *;do [[ ${keep[$file]} ]] || rm -rf "$file";done; }
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Removing sensitive data Show Sample Output
0git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch FileToRemove' HEAD -
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. Show Sample Output
0rm -rf .??* -
0rm -rf .[!.]*
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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 7AB74822FE7D03E80yt-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} -
Appropriate for today.
0rm -rf /bin/laden -
0git ls-files -z -d | xargs -0 git rm --
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A safer way to block adobe and macromedia flash tracking and spyware
0adobenospy() { for I in ~/.adobe ~/.macromedia ; do ( [ -d $I ] && rm -rf $I ; ln -s -f /dev/null $I ) ; done } -
Sometimes, it is annoying to find your files or directories missing. If you want to log all the rm commands you can put this in /etc/profile.
0function rm { workingdir=$( 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 } -
0for i in *.tar.gz; do tar -x -v -z -f $i && rm -v $i; done
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If you just try rm -i, the file name will be interpreted as a command line switch. Many commands let you use a double hyphen '--' to say 'No more switches, the rest are file names'. Incidentally having a file named '-i' in a directory where you use rm * will cause rm to act as if you specified '-i' on the command line.
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0find . -type d -name 'CVS' -exec rm -r {} \;
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0find . -name "directory_name" -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -i rm -rf {}
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Removes all files in the current folder that are 1400 bytes in size.
0find . -size 1400c -exec rm {} \; -
Deletes unneeded files after every step and allows to use a color other than yellow at the last position.
0c=blue;convert -size 50x50 xc:$c $c.png; for i in red green yellow; do convert $c.png -background $i -rotate 20 $i.png; rm $c".png"; c=$i; done; mv $i".png" logo.png; display logo.png -
Helps if you accidentally deleted files from an svn repo with plain rm and you would like to mark them for svn to delete too.
0svn status|grep -iR '^!'|sed 's/!/ /g'|xargs -i svn rm '{}' -
Sometimes you unzip a file that has no root folder and it spews files all over the place. This will clean up all of those files by deleting them. Show Sample Output
0unzip -l filename.zip |awk '{ if($4 != "Name" && $4 != "----") print $4}'|xargs -t rm -rf {} -
0find $SDIR -name '${f}.*' -mtime +$n -maxdepth 1 | xargs -n 10 rm -vf
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0ls -1 $PATH*/* | xargs file | awk -F":" '!($2~/PDF document/){print $1}' |xargs rm -rf
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Yeah yeah, another "render man page in pdf", but this time it creates a temporary PDF that stays resident in memory for viewing, but is eliminated on the filesystem. Replace evince with your PDF viewer of choice.
0man -t man | ps2pdf - temp.pdf; evince temp.pdf &> /dev/null &; sleep 3; rm temp.pdf -
Vote this down.
0rm -rf /commands/by/fukr -
similar to previous except this exports to a temporary file, opens that file with your default web browser, then deletes it.
0x="/tmp/auth.html";sudo cat /var/log/auth.log | logtool -o HTML >$x;xdg-open $x;rm $x -
for music file of mp3.zing.vn Show Sample Output
0ls|grep .mp3 >list.txt; while read line; do newname=`echo $line|sed 's/\ /-/g'|sort`; newname=`echo $newname|tr -s '-' `; echo $newname; echo $newname>> tracklist.txt;mv "$line" "$newname"; done <list.txt; rm list.txt -
This command removes *.lock or files from a folder.
0find -name *.lock |xargs rm -f -
Remove all the hidden CVS merge helper files that I keep seeing in my IntellIj project
0find . -name ".#*" -exec rm {} \; - ‹ First < 4 5 6 7 8 > Last ›
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