22 февр. 2014 г. · That is evil: rm -r is not for deleting files but for deleting directories. Luckily there are probably no directories matching *.o .

17 авг. 2012 г. · This command will recursively search for directories ( -type d ) through directoryname and -delete them only if their subdirectories or ...

19 дек. 2021 г. · rmdir is safer when one wants to ensure to only operate on empty directories. Recursive operation does not make sense with this in mind.

23 дек. 2014 г. · Before you delete directories, you could delete files. ie first run: find . -name "DIR-NAME" -type f -delete Might not work if you have special file types.

12 нояб. 2019 г. · You can do it using following find command: find /path/to/transfer -mindepth 2 -delete. -mindepth 2 parameter tells find to ignore first two ...

18 дек. 2019 г. · You could use the zsh shell to recursively expand the argument into the list of (sub)directories, reverse-sorted by depth; then rmdir can ...

25 авг. 2012 г. · The find command is the primary tool for recursive file system operations. Use the -type d expression to tell find you're interested in finding directories ...

29 окт. 2011 г. · Delete found files and/or directories. Always returns true. This executes from the current working directory as find recurses down the tree.

13 окт. 2014 г. · rm -r works on each of its arguments in turn. If an argument is a directory, it lists the directory (with the opendir and readdir functions or some equivalent ...

20 дек. 2013 г. · I assumed it would delete all files/directories under the current directory recursively. Something bad happened after that (my server is down, ...