22 февр. 2014 г. · Instead, the pattern ( *.o ) is expanded by the shell and rm will descend into and remove any directories whose name matches that pattern.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

20 дек. 2013 г. · In general, it's a better idea to go up one directory and rm -r the directory itself, recreating it if necessary.

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 ...

29 окт. 2011 г. · To do it strictly with a wildcard, you need advanced shell support. Bash v4 has the globstar option, which lets you recursively match ...

17 окт. 2016 г. · rm command does not, for example, check if the path is to a file or a folder automatically and delete it recursively, by default, if necessary.