Rm selected files

POSIX requires that a shell redirect its input to the command you specify when it encounters a here-document. The command-substitution has to complete before anything else happens. Most shells use temp-files for here-docs - some pipes. Either way tar -c completes and the shell stashes its output before rm runs. Because rm ignores stdin its left hanging for tar -x when rm finishes - and the shell can divest itself of the copy it saved of your file s.

Here-docs can be used like aimed pipes a lot of the time. What if the file is 64GB in size? Or is there no actual copying involved? Show 9 more comments.

EDIT Actually, easier: cd.. Shadur Shadur This is definitely the simplest answer. Both fail if fulldir is a mountpoint. Both result in incorrect settings if fulldir isn't "your" directory with standard permissions — roaima.

Also, I wonder if someone out there knows how to preserve directory permissions.. Either way, mv ing files outside directory, and then obliterating contents in some way, seems like the best, safest, most obvious approach. Maybe everyone on this StackExchange is really good with shell scripts. Show 2 more comments. On my Scientific Linux 6 OS this works: shopt -s extglob rm!

The above does not work but the following does: find. You mean the find solution I gave didn't working? Yes your find solution also works. Can you make it more details? How "didn't work?

It does not remove other files, or it removed file. Then I tried the "find" solution. It does work. Oh, so of course it doesn't work. Use rm! That makes absolutely no difference whatsoever. The issue here was that the OP was 1 not using a shell that supports this format and 2 even in bash, you need to enable it with shopt -s extglob.

In any case, quoting a simple filename like that would have made no difference. To keep just utils folder do - rm -rf!

Nithin Nithin 2 2 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. Double-click a previous version of the folder that contains the file or folder you want to restore. For example, if a file was deleted today, choose a version of the folder from yesterday, which should contain the file. Drag the file or folder that you want to restore to another location, such as your desktop or another folder. The version of the file or folder is saved to the location that you selected. Tip: If you don't remember the exact file or folder name or its location, you can search for it by typing part of the name in the search box in the Documents library.

Right-click the file or folder, and then select Restore previous versions. The list will include files saved on a backup if you're using Windows Backup to back up your files as well as restore points, if both types are available. The Previous Versions tab , showing some previous versions of files. Before restoring a previous version of a file or folder, select the previous version, and then click Open to view it to make sure it's the version you want.

Note: You can't open or copy previous versions of files that were created by Windows Backup, but you can restore them. To restore a previous version, select the previous version, and then select Restore. Warning: The file or folder replaces the current version on your computer, and the replacement can't be undone.

Note: If the Restore button is unavailable, you can't restore a previous version of the file or folder to its original location. You might be able to open it or save it to a different location. Windows 7 More To restore a file from a backup, make sure the media or drive that your backup is saved on is available, and then follow these steps: To restore files from a backup Open Backup and Restore by selecting the Start button , selecting Control Panel , selecting System and Maintenance , and then selecting Backup and Restore.

Select Restore my files , and then follow the steps in the wizard. You don't need to make an alias for this, because the trash-cli package provides a command trash , which does what we want. As Eliah Kagan makes clear in extensive comments, you can also make this recursive using find. In that case you can't use an alias, so the commands below assume you have installed trash-cli.

I summarise Eliah's comments:. This command finds and displays all. To delete. If you want to delete all files of a certain type, but only 1 folder "deep" from the current folder:. This will list out the search results that are piped to rm command via xargs. Once you are sure about the list you can drop the echo in above command. Ubuntu Community Ask! Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How can I recursively delete all files of a specific extension in the current directory? Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 2 months ago. Active 7 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Glutanimate Related post - How do I recursively delete directories with wildcard? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Use find : find. Run first: find. See man find and man rm for more info and see also this related question on SE: How do I remove all.

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