In addition to what RudiC suggested, with write protected files you may need the rm -f option. And, with 100000 files you could run into ARG_MAX limitations. Note also that it is a bad idea to have spaces in the middle of some of your filenames, but with the code RudiC suggested, or with:
you should be able to handle them with no problem. If you use a while read path loop, be very sure that you use double quotes when you expand "$path" or the spaces in your filenames will cause unfound pathname fragment errors or will remove files other than the ones you are trying to remove.
I'm trying to figure out a way to delete empty files in a directory. I have a cron that runs and creates a flat file every 15 mins. However, most times at night the flat file will be empty.
I'd like to run a script to delete empty files that end with *.dat
Any suggestions?
Rich (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have the following task to perform using shell script.
The user will provide a directory name along with a date. The script will delete all the files in the specified directory that was created earlier to that date. Also it should display the number of files that has been deleted.
... (7 Replies)
i want to delete all the files in my directory except the latest one. i need to do this from shell script.
say i have
a.txt - latest file
b.txt,
c.txt..
it should delete all the files except a.txt? (4 Replies)
hi,
I have 100 files say File1.mp3, File2.mp3 .......file100.mp3
i found that File1.mp3 to File50.mp3 are damaged.
I want to delete the damaged files from the directory using sed with regex how can i do this.
thanks (5 Replies)
I have a local linux machine in which the files are dumped by a remote ubuntu server. If the process in remote server has any problem then empty files are created in local machine. Is there any way using perl script to check if the empty files are being created and delete them and then run a shell... (2 Replies)
I want to use my script to get any file then delete it once it transfers to my side , I manage to create below script to generate "list" file which contains all file names in "10.10.1.1" then I made "a.out" file which contains the commands that I want to run it on "10.10.1.1" to get & delete the... (2 Replies)
Hello, i'm trying to solve this script.
List, one at a time, all files larger than 100K in the /home/username directory tree. Give the
user the option to delete or compress the file, then proceed to show the next one. Write to a
logfile the names of all deleted files and the deletion times.
I... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I needed help with a shell script where in it checks if a file exists under a directory and also checks the age of the file and delete it if it is older than 3 weeks.
thanks (10 Replies)
Hello,
I'm new to shell scripting and need a quick note on how to write a shell script to perform deletion of files from 5 different hostnames in various locations.
Found out to delete files from one path by using below command and made it to work on cron job but need to do it in a shell... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am new to shell scripting, need help,
my requirement is to delete the ip address from serveral files,
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git-clean
GIT-CLEAN(1) Git Manual GIT-CLEAN(1)NAME
git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree
SYNOPSIS
git clean [-d] [-f] [-n] [-q] [-x | -X] [--] <path>...
DESCRIPTION
Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not under version control, starting from the current directory.
Normally, only files unknown to git are removed, but if the -x option is specified, ignored files are also removed. This can, for example,
be useful to remove all build products.
If any optional <path>... arguments are given, only those paths are affected.
OPTIONS -d
Remove untracked directories in addition to untracked files. If an untracked directory is managed by a different git repository, it is
not removed by default. Use -f option twice if you really want to remove such a directory.
-f, --force
If the git configuration variable clean.requireForce is not set to false, git clean will refuse to run unless given -f or -n.
-n, --dry-run
Don't actually remove anything, just show what would be done.
-q, --quiet
Be quiet, only report errors, but not the files that are successfully removed.
-x
Don't use the ignore rules. This allows removing all untracked files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in
conjunction with git reset) to create a pristine working directory to test a clean build.
-X
Remove only files ignored by git. This may be useful to rebuild everything from scratch, but keep manually created files.
AUTHOR
Written by Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org[1]>
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
NOTES
1. proski@gnu.org
mailto:proski@gnu.org
Git 1.7.1 07/05/2010 GIT-CLEAN(1)