Commands using rm

Commands using rm (279)

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Recursively remove .svn directories
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0

find . -iname ".svn" | xargs rm -r $1

rwunsch · 2012-05-07 08:18:12 0
Remove all zero size files from current directory (not recursive)

works only in zsh
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rm *(L0)

bst · 2012-04-20 19:08:07 0
Remove all zero size files from current directory (not recursive)

Remove all zero size files from current directory. Its a not recursive option like: find . -size 0c -exec rm {} \;
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ls -s|grep -E "^ *0"|sed "s/^ *0 //g"|xargs -i rm "{}"

glaudiston · 2012-04-18 14:50:46 3
print pdf man file

print pdf man ls Show Sample Output
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```
print pdf man ls 
```
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man -t ls > ls.ps && pdf2ps ls.ps && rm ls.ps

fekrhdesigns · 2012-04-08 11:48:25 0
Get Total Line Count Of All Files In Subdirectory (Recursive)
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find . -type f -name "*.*" -exec cat {} > totalLines 2> /dev/null \; && wc -l totalLines && rm totalLines

philwc · 2012-03-22 13:11:53 0
Remove hidden CVS merge helper files

Remove all the hidden CVS merge helper files that I keep seeing in my IntellIj project
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0

find . -name ".#*" -exec rm {} \;

jialin · 2012-03-07 17:05:47 0
find *.lock files and delete

This command removes *.lock or files from a folder.
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find -name *.lock |xargs rm -f

mpax · 2012-03-07 04:48:03 0
Search commandlinefu and view syntax-highlighted results in vim

Here is the full function (got trunctated), which is much better and works for multiple queries. function cmdfu () { local t=~/cmdfu; until [[ -z $1 ]]; do echo -e "\n# $1 {{{1" >> $t; curl -s "commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/$1/`echo -n $1|base64`/plaintext" | sed '1,2d;s/^#.*/& {{{2/g' | tee -a $t > $t.c; sed -i "s/^# $1 {/# $1 - `grep -c '^#' $t.c` {/" $t; shift; done; vim -u /dev/null -c "set ft=sh fdm=marker fdl=1 noswf" -M $t; rm $t $t.c } Searches commandlinefu for single/multiple queries and displays syntax-highlighted, folded, and numbered results in vim. Show Sample Output
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```
$ cmdfu mkfifo vim

# mkfifo - 7 {{{1
+---  3 lines: Share your terminal session real-time ---
+---  3 lines: execute a shell with netcat without -e ---
...

# vim - 25 {{{1
+---  3 lines: vim read stdin ---
+---  3 lines: Search commandlinefu.com and display with VIMs syntax highlighting! ---
...
```
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cmdfu(){ local t=~/cmdfu;echo -e "\n# $1 {{{1">>$t;curl -s "commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/$1/`echo -n $1|base64`/plaintext"|sed '1,2d;s/^#.*/& {{{2/g'>$t;vim -u /dev/null -c "set ft=sh fdm=marker fdl=1 noswf" -M $t;rm $t; }

AskApache · 2012-02-21 05:43:16 6
Tracklist reaplace backspace to '-'

for music file of mp3.zing.vn Show Sample Output
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```
Gui-Ngan-Loi-Yeu-Tuan-Hung.mp3
Heal-The-World-Michael-Jackson.mp3
Khong-Tin-Mot-Som-Mai-Binh-Yen.mp3
Kisses-and-Cake-John-Powell.mp3
Thu-Cuoi-Yanbi-ft.-Mr-T.mp3
Wait-For-You-X4-Band.mp3
```
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ls|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

hieuht · 2012-02-16 08:33:14 9
Export log to html file

similar to previous except this exports to a temporary file, opens that file with your default web browser, then deletes it.
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x="/tmp/auth.html";sudo cat /var/log/auth.log | logtool -o HTML >$x;xdg-open $x;rm $x

unixmonkey30696 · 2012-02-09 13:36:21 0
Removed my commandlinefu.com entries

Vote this down.
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rm -rf /commands/by/fukr

fukr · 2012-02-03 03:10:01 0
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 0
Render man page in *temporary* PDF (works in Gnome)

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.
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man -t man | ps2pdf - temp.pdf; evince temp.pdf &> /dev/null &; sleep 3; rm temp.pdf

threv · 2011-12-08 17:40:47 3
Search commandlinefu.com and display with VIMs syntax highlighting!

Multi-argument version, but with VIM loveliness :D
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cmdfu(){ local TCF="/var/tmp/cmdfu"; echo " Searching..."; curl "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/$(echo "$@" | sed 's/ /-/g')/$(echo -n $@ | base64)/plaintext" --silent > "$TCF"; vim -c "set filetype=sh" -RM "$TCF"; rm "$TCF"; }

expelledboy · 2011-12-06 10:01:27 2
delete the files from the given directory except the PDF file
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ls -1 $PATH*/* | xargs file | awk -F":" '!($2~/PDF document/){print $1}' |xargs rm -rf

karuppasamy · 2011-11-02 04:42:32 0
find something
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find $SDIR -name '${f}.*' -mtime +$n -maxdepth 1 | xargs -n 10 rm -vf

seker4869 · 2011-11-01 05:35:03 0

un-unzip a file

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

unzip -l filename.zip |awk '{ if($4 != "Name" && $4 != "----") print $4}'|xargs -t rm -rf {}

hk0i · 2011-10-20 18:54:15 0

Mark manually deleted files as deleted in svn

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.
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svn status|grep -iR '^!'|sed 's/!/ /g'|xargs -i svn rm '{}'

erdeszt · 2011-10-06 08:11:25 0
Count the number of deleted files

It does not work without the verbose mode (-v is important)
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find /path/folder -type f -name "*.*" -print -exec rm -v {} + | wc -l;

Koobiac · 2011-09-19 14:53:37 4
shut of the screen ( Fool proof )

Use the command to create a script and bind it to a key using keyboard shortcut. eg: Script locks the screen in a loop until the command is executed again.At first it
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switchMonitor () { LF=/tmp/screen-lock; if [ -f $LF ]; then rm $LF; else touch $LF; sleep .5; while [ -f $LF ]; do xset dpms force off; sleep 2; done; fi };

totti · 2011-08-26 17:55:44 3
create a colorful image

Deletes unneeded files after every step and allows to use a color other than yellow at the last position.
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c=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

Funatiker · 2011-08-21 15:59:11 0
remove files of a specific size

Removes all files in the current folder that are 1400 bytes in size.
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find . -size 1400c -exec rm {} \;

gef · 2011-08-18 15:19:24 1
find specified directory and delete it recursively including directories with spaces
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find . -name "directory_name" -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -i rm -rf {}

damage · 2011-08-16 15:50:39 0
remove all CVS directories
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find . -type d -name 'CVS' -exec rm -r {} \;

Enirevlow · 2011-08-12 12:15:44 0
remove all CVS directories
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find . -type d -name 'CVS' | xargs rm -r

kev · 2011-08-10 07:38:51 0
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