{"id":10244,"date":"2006-06-28T21:01:11","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T18:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/28\/rm-on-steroids-a-safer-way\/"},"modified":"2006-06-28T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T18:04:07","slug":"rm-on-steroids-a-safer-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/28\/rm-on-steroids-a-safer-way\/","title":{"rendered":"rm on steroids (a safer way)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I came across an excellent tip<\/a> about mixing rm<\/code> and find<\/code> commands in Linux shell. <\/p>\n

The only thing I’d add to it is a bit of safety. Before executing the mix of find<\/code> and rm<\/code>, run the find<\/code> command with the same options, but without rm<\/code>. It will print out the files that match your search. These files are about to be deleted, so it’s a good thing to review them first.<\/p>\n

By the way, I do exactly the same thing when working with SQL. If I need to delete something, I first create a SELECT<\/code> statement that matches everything I need gone. And only when I am sure about the results, I change the SELECT<\/code> to DELETE<\/code>.<\/p>\n

It’s been ages since I deleted something that I didn’t intend…<\/p>\n

Update<\/ins>: Obviously, I haven’t read the comments before posting. My suggestions has already been suggested.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I came across an excellent tip about mixing rm and find commands in Linux shell. The only thing I’d add to it is a bit of safety. Before executing the mix of find and rm, run the find command with the same options, but without rm. It will print out the files that match your … Continue reading rm on steroids (a safer way)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8233,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/18\/format-c-versus-rm-rf\/","url_meta":{"origin":10244,"position":0},"title":"“format C:” versus “rm -rf \/”","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 18, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Jokes about \"format C:\" and \"rm -rf \/\" are pretty frequent in the computer universe. 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