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Locate and delete all temporary files in user directory
I use vim a lot, and my area has power failure a lot. So the resultant is I get many *.swp files scattered over my PC.
I want an alias of rm command that removes all files with either .swp, ~, ...
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How do I remove a directory and all its subdirectories?
I'm trying to learn some directory navigagtion with bash and all I know is that
rmdir directoryname
will remove the directory but not if it's containing something. Is there a way to force it to ...
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How do I recursively delete directories with wildcard?
I am working through SSH on a WD My Book World Edition. Basically I would like to start at a particular directory level, and recursively remove all sub-directories matching .Apple* - how would I go ...
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How to remove all the files in a directory?
I am trying to remove all files and subdirectories in a directory. I used rm -r to remove all files, but I want to remove all files and subdirectories, excluding the top directory itself.
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