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How to remove more than one directory using single command? Is it possible to do it in one liner? If yes, Please help on this. /osmf/mgmt/scheduler>ls -lrt total 22 drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Mar 26 2009 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 4 ctmagent controlm 1024 May 24 2010 ctmagent drwxrwxrwx 3 edwprod edw 1024 Dec 1 09:53 edi drwxrwxrwx 120 edwprod edw 5120 Dec 27 09:37 edw /osmf/mgmt/scheduler> Can I delete edi and edw using a single command? rm -r edi edw rm can take an arbitrary number of arguments, and the -r flag makes it delete directories recursively. Refer to man rm for more details. And, BTW,

I'm using Python and Envoy. I need to delete all files in a directory. Apart from some files, the directory is empty. In a terminal this would be: rm /tmp/my_silly_directory/* Common sense dictates that in envoy, this translates into: r = envoy.run('rm /tmp/my_silly_directory/*') However: r.std_err -> "rm: cannot remove `/tmp/my_silly_directory/*': No such file or directory" Naturally there are alternatives to using envoy in this case, I am simply wondering why it doesn't work. Any clues? On UNIX, it's up to the shell to interpret wildcards like * . If you execute a program and pass an

I have a Makefile that defines a .PHONY clean target for cleaning up .o files and executables, that target looks like: ... .PHONY : clean clean: rm $(addprefix $(vq_DIR),$(vq_OBJS)) \ $(addprefix $(vq_DIR),vq) \ $(addprefix $(covq_DIR),$(covq_OBJS)) \ $(addprefix $(covq_DIR),covq) \ $(addprefix $(covq_2_DIR),$(covq_2_OBJS)) \ $(addprefix $(covq_2_DIR),covq_2) \ $(addprefix $(covq_2_DIR),$(test_OBJS)) \ $(addprefix $(covq_2_DIR),test) Everything works as it should, but when some of these files do not exist, rm raises an Error (No such file or directory), and the output says that the Makefile

This question already has answers here : Closed 5 years ago . How to remove files starting with double hyphen? (7 answers) I have a script that creates files, and sometimes they end up having two dashes at the beginning. Is there any way to delete them? mv doesn't work either. Here is the error I am getting: $ ls --1355509766.jpg $ rm --1355509766.jpg rm: illegal option -- - usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ... unlink file $ rm "--1355509766.jpg" rm: illegal option -- - usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ... unlink file The usual trick is rm ./--1355509766.jpg Update: here's what man rm has

I've got a seemingly un-deletable directory in Unix that contains some hidden files with names that start with .panfs . I'm unable to delete it using either of these commands: rm -R <dir> rm -Rf <dir> Does anyone have any suggestions? Try to delete it with root user or use sudo , if you are in trouble Use rm -rf dir with root account and it will be deleted, since you should be facing a permissions issue. Check with df dir and mount how is your directory mounted and to which file system it belongs to. Notice that if you use NFS , CIFS/SMB , or some other distributed file system , you could have