How To Delete Files And Folders Or Directories In Ubuntu Linux Command Line

How To Delete Or Remove Files And Folders Or Directories In Ubuntu Linux Command Line

In this video I will show you how to permanently delete or remove files and folders or directories in Linux. The operating system I installed on my Server during this video tutorial was Ubuntu Linux. These commands will work on other Linux operating systems too.

Commands To Remove Files:

There are two ways to delete or remove files in Linux. You can use either "unlink" or "rm".

unlink filename.extension rm filename.extension

You can delete or remove multiple files in a single command using "rm" and separating your each file you want to delete with a space. The files you delete do not have to have the same extension to be deleted using a single command. You can't use the "unlink" command to remove multiple files.

rm filename.extension filename.extension

Commands To Remove Directories or Folders: rm -rf directoryname or foldername

To remove files or folders beginning with a letter such as "b" type the following command:

rm -rf b*

You can also add more letters or even words to the above command before the star (*)

To remove files with a specific file extension such as ".json" type the following command:

rm -rf *json

Command Syntax: rm -rf *extension

To delete an entire directory or folder, leaving it empty, type the following command:

rm -rf *

To list all the files and folders in your current directory type the following command:

ls

Abbreviation Key rm = Remove r = Recursive (Remove files and folders without being prompted) f = Force (Remove files and folders with write-protection) -rf = Recursive Force

• = All ls = List

Timestamps: Intro & Context 0:00 How To List Files In Current Directory (ls) 0:10 unlink and rm Commands To Delete A Single File In Terminal 0:25 How To Remove Directories Or Folders In A Linux Terminal 1:44 How To Delete An Entire Directory to Empty It Completely 2:36

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