#delete

9 one-liners with this tag.

Delete a directory with all its contents

$rm -rI -- /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/old

destructiveFilesystem

Delete a file

$rm -i -- /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/old.zip

destructiveFilesystem

Recursively delete all files with a given name

$find /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs -type f -name 'error_log' -print -delete

destructiveFilesystem

Securely overwrite and delete a file

$shred -u -z -n 3 -- /root/old-dump.sql

destructiveFilesystem

Delete empty directories recursively

$find /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs -mindepth 1 -type d -empty -print -delete

destructiveFilesystem

Delete files older than X days

$find /var/backups/example.com -type f -name '*.tar.gz' -mtime +30 -print -delete

destructiveFilesystem

Mirror a directory exactly with rsync --delete

$rsync -av --delete /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/ /backup/example.com/httpdocs/

destructiversync and backup

Permanently delete a MySQL database

#mysql -e 'DROP DATABASE wp_old;'

destructiveMySQL and MariaDB

Remove a Docker Compose stack including its volumes

#docker compose -f /opt/app/compose.yaml down -v

destructiveDocker