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I want to remove all files from Git at ~/bin/. I run git rm -r --cached ~/.vim/* # Thanks to Pate in finding --cached! I get fatal: pathspec '.vim/colors' did not match any files This error messsage suggests me to use the following PATHs, since ~/.vim/** does not work ~/.vim/* # I get the error ~/.vim/*/*/* # This removes files from the index at ~/.vim/folderA/folderB/file1.txt ~/.vim/*/* # similar error as to the first PATH How can you remove all files and subdirectories at ~/.vim from Git? -- git rm -r --cached ~/.vim/* fatal: pathspec '.vim/colors' did not match any files 1/ You do not need

I accidentally named a file ~ when I was trying to move it to my home directory. And now in my / there is a file called ~ and I have no idea how I would remove it. How would I remove a file that I accidentally renamed ~ ? Put the filename in quotes: rm '~' You can follow the bash manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Tilde-Expansion.html If a word begins with an unquoted tilde character (‘~’), all of the characters up to the first unquoted slash (or all characters, if there is no unquoted slash) are considered a tilde-prefix. ... You could just use a backslash to remove it

I accidentally removed the entire directory of my source code...with a nice rm -r. I know, really bad; but fortunately, I had a git repo in the containing directory. Thus, git has a huge list of unstaged changes of deleted files. For example: "deleted: src/caronmonitor/server.py" How do I get these files back? There is advice all over the web to do: git checkout file or git revert <commit> But as I understand that will restore the file to it's state at the last commit. I don't want to go back to the last commit but instead go back to right before the delete operation. I can look in the gitk

I am trying to write a very simple Bash shell script that will cd in a specific directory, it will remove all files and directories except some few selected ones and then cd back to the original dir. My code is: #!/bin/bash cd /path/to/desired/directory shopt -s extglob rm !\(filename1\|filename2\|filename3\) -rf cd - I have tried many different ways to write the symbols '(' and '|', with single or double quotes or backslash but nothing worked. Note, that shopt -s extglob and rm !(filename1|filename2) -rf work fine outside a script. Probably I am committing a standard and fundamental bash

How can I remove an empty folder locally and also have that happen for other collaborators that share the remote via pull-push? I know that folders aren't 'tracked' in that sense by git but the question remains. e.g. I moved a file to another folder and committed the change (of the move). But I can't git rm name the folder as I get "doesn't match" git rmdir name doesn't exist. I can do a git clean -f folder but how does that get pushed up? I can directly rm the file but how do I get that directory removal done correctly and pushed to the repository and then out to others when they pull so that