How To Remove or Delete A Directory In Linux?
Linux provides different commands in order to remove or delete directories and files. But in some cases, this may not work as expected and we can get a message like rmdir: ‘dir’ Directory no empty...
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How To Delete File In Linux?
Deleting files in Linux can be sometimes tricky. We have a tool named rm which is the shortcut for the remove word. In this tutorial, we will look at how to remove or delete a file...
What Does “rm -rf” Command Do In Linux?
rm is very useful command. We can use rm command with different options. The -rf options are one of the most used options to remove files and folders. In this tutorial we will examine the -rf options and...
How to Deal With Dashed File Names Like Open, Remove?
Dash (-) have important role in Linux and other operating systems. It is used by commands to specify options and arguments. This popular use case may create problems if we have files those provides dash....
How To Remove Symbolic Links In Linux?
Symbolic links provides practical solutions file name or path related problems. Symbolic links will create same file or folder with different name and path. In some situations this may cause problem and we have to...
How To Delete Empty, Nonempty Directory In Linux
Linux file system consist of directories. A system administrator generally work with directories and related operations. In this tutorial we will look how to delete empty or nonempty linux directories. Delete or Remove Empty Directory...
Useful Linux Commands A System Administrator Should Know
Linux is command based operating system. Most of things are done in cli based environment bash . In this tutorial we will look popular and useful commands used by Linux system administrators and user. You can...
Linux rm Command Tutorial With Examples
Linux is a file-based operating system and actually everything is a file. Sometimes we need to clear our server from some of files. How can we achieve that? There are alternative ways to delete files...
Linux Directory and File Operations
Most basic Linux usage starts with Linux file and directory operations. We will look at these operations to cover basics. In this tutorial, we will learn commands like ls , cd , mv . List...
How To Remove Files Older Than 1 Day/1 Week/1 Month Recursively
We are decent with scripting language bash and not now hot to remove older files for example 1 day. rm command do not have this type of option to use easily. I think adding this...
