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Exclamation Points - Is there a linux bash command to find and delete all directories named "!example" (and their contents)
I have searched and searched for an answer to this question, and I have used some of the answers I found in the past for finding and deleting large numbers of directories that are named by a certain ...
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rm -rf / on a virtual machine?
So, this is probably a stupid question, but I'm genuinely interested. Would it be safe to recursively delete everything on a virtual machine from a command line, just for fun? I'd assume so, given ...
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Why does `rm -rf`` silently fail?
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Please don't waste your time reading my question below. It turns out my colleague is an idiot.. :)
On my server I'm trying to remove a folder and all its subfolders with the usual rm -rf ...
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rm -r only files?
Is there an way to remove all the files from the current dir (recursively), keeping the directory structure?
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