hi, everyone
i am looking for a tip to delete the content of a directory without
deleting the actual directory with bash

thank you

On 2007-05-25, di0rz` wrote:
> hi, everyone
> i am looking for a tip to delete the content of a directory without
> deleting the actual directory with bash

shopt -s dotglob
rm -rf "$dir"/*

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di0rz` wrote:
> i am looking for a tip to delete the content of a directory without
> deleting the actual directory with bash

$ man rm

Try:
$ rm -rf <directory>/*
$ rm -rf <directory>/.* # if you also want to hit dot-files

Or is there something that I missed?


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thanks it's working


On May 25, 8:11 am, SiKing <nos...@noway.invalid> wrote:
> di0rz` wrote:
> > i am looking for a tip to delete the content of a directory without
> > deleting the actual directory with bash
>
> $ man rm
>
> Try:
> $ rm -rf <directory>/*
> $ rm -rf <directory>/.* # if you also want to hit dot-files
>
> Or is there something that I missed?
>
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