How To Delete File/Directory in CentOS VPS?

[Jovani]

I have thousand of files now storing on my vps hosting and I want to remove some files and any directories unused at this time. Anyone give me any tips or commands how to delete file/directory in my CentOS VPS?

 

[Alex Thompson]

@jovani
You can use these commands as following

rm -rf "dir name" 
or
rm -r -f dir_path

Paramaters: -r = recursive and -f = force(!), which may be required, depending on the file ownerships/perms at this time.

 

[Jovani]

@Alex
If I want to delete specific files and all files in the current directory, which commands I should use?

 

[Alex Thompson]

Alex Thompson

Ok, here we go

rm file1.txt file2.txt

To delete a all folder and its content recursively, you can this:

rm -rf foldername/

To delete all files/folders in the current directory, without deleting the directory itself, you use this code:

rm -rf *

Hope it helps!

 

[ggsmarket]

rm -rf /path for directory
rm -f /filepath for file

 

[geo_whr]

You can use:

rm -rf /path/to/folder/* > to delete all files in that particular folder
rm -rf /path/to/folder/*.txt > to remove all files having .txt extension
rm -rf filename > to remove specific file

 

[martinpetrak]

rm -rf directory path and name