LINUX How to Delete Files and Folders via SSH
Sometimes you would need to remove a file or a folder from the
system. To do so using SSH, you would need to execute the appropriate
command – rm.
The command in its simpliest form looks like:
To delete a whole folder and its content recursively, you can use:
The command in its simpliest form looks like:
rm myFile.txt myFile1.txt myFile2.txt …etc…
You
would notice however that listing all files/folders that need to be
deleted can be quite time consuming. Fortunately, rm accepts several
arguments which can ease us. In the above example, we could type:rm myFile*.txt
This will match all files starting with ‘myFile’ and ending in ‘.txt’To delete a whole folder and its content recursively, you can use:
rm -rf foldername/
To delete all files/folders in the current directory, without deleting the directory itself, you would need to use:rm -rf *
Please
be very careful when using rm command, as it might have devastating
effects on your website/server, should you delete a system file or a
folder.
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