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bash, delete the content of a directory
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| di0rz` 2007-05-25, 7:17 am |
| hi, everyone
i am looking for a tip to delete the content of a directory without
deleting the actual directory with bash
thank you 
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| SiKing 2007-05-25, 7:17 am |
| di0rz` wrote:
> i am looking for a tip to delete the content of a directory without
> deleting the actual directory with bash
$ man rm
Try:
$ rm -rf <directory>/*
$ rm -rf <directory>/.* # if you also want to hit dot-files
Or is there something that I missed?
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| Chris F.A. Johnson 2007-05-26, 7:21 am |
| On 2007-05-25, di0rz` wrote:
> hi, everyone
> i am looking for a tip to delete the content of a directory without
> deleting the actual directory with bash
shopt -s dotglob
rm -rf "$dir"/*
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Chris F.A. Johnson, author <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/shell/>
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
===== My code in this post, if any, assumes the POSIX locale
===== and is released under the GNU General Public Licence
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| di0rz` 2007-05-28, 7:19 pm |
| thanks it's working
On May 25, 8:11 am, SiKing <nos...@noway.invalid> wrote:
> di0rz` wrote:
>
> $ man rm
>
> Try:
> $ rm -rf <directory>/*
> $ rm -rf <directory>/.* # if you also want to hit dot-files
>
> Or is there something that I missed?
>
> --
> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
> Version: 3.1
> GE d+(-) s+: a@ C+ ULAHS++$ P- L+>++ E--- W++ N++ o !K w--(+) O- M?>+ V? PS+
> PE+(++) Y+ PGP- t+ 5 X R !tv b+ DI(+) D G e++ h---- r+++@ y++++
> ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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