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Old 12-15-2009
Deleting both hidden and regular files in a single shot

How to delete both hidden (. dot files) and regular files available in a directory in a single shot (just one pass instead of two rm commands)?

The following are not helping:

Code:
rm .*   (or)   rm \.*   (or)  rm .??*  (or)  rm *

All these commands delete either hidden or regular files at one time, but not at both.
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Old 12-15-2009
Code:
ls -a | xargs rm -f

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Old 12-15-2009
Code:
rm .* * 2>&-

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Old 12-15-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Code:
rm .* * 2>&-

Thanks!! this works, but 2>&- (closing the stderr) is redundant I guess, am I mistaken?
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Old 12-15-2009
It is just that if there are directories that start with a . then there will some warnings that rm cannot remove them, so the 2>&- is there to suppress those..
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