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How to delete a file or directory recursively by linux? This problem may be often seen in our daily study or work. I hope you can gain a lot from this question. The following is the reference content that the editor brings to you, let's take a look at it!

To achieve linux's goal of recursively finding and deleting files / directories, we can use the following syntax to use the find command with the rm command.

Here, the + sign at the end allows multiple directories to be read at the same time.

$find / start/search/from/this/dir-name "dirname-to-delete"-type d-exec / bin/rm-rf {} +

Note: the rm command must be used carefully because it is one of the most dangerous commands used in Linux: you may accidentally delete critical system directories, resulting in system failure.

In the following example, we will search for a directory named files_2008 and recursively delete it:

$find ~ / Downloads/software-name "files_2008"-type d-exec / bin/rm-rf {} +

You can also use find and xargs

In the following syntax, the-print0 operation allows the full directory path to be printed on standard output, followed by an empty character:

$find / start/search/from/this/dir-name "dirname-to-delete"-type d-print0 | xargs-0 / bin/rm-rf "{}"

Using the same example above, we have:

$find ~ / Downloads/software-name "files_2008"-type d-print0 | xargs-0 / bin/rm-rf "{}" Thank you for reading! After reading the above, do you have a general idea of linux's method of recursively finding deleted files or directories? I hope the content of the article will be helpful to all of you. If you want to know more about the relevant articles, you are welcome to follow the industry information channel.

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