Remove Sentence Documents on Ubuntu For Free

Select the item you want to delete. Press and hold the Shift key, then press the Delete key on your keyboard. Because you cannot undo this, you will be asked to confirm that you want to delete the file or folder.

Rm removes each specified file. By default, it does not remove directories. If the -I or --interactive=once option is given, and there are more than three files or the -r, -R, or --recursive are given, then rm prompts the user for whether to proceed with the entire operation.

Open your terminal, and run the following rm command to delete a file (ubuntu-delete-file-demo. txt) located in the Documents directory. As shown below, the command provides no output since the files are deleted silently, which is the default behavior of the rm command.

Deleting files (rm command) To delete the file named myfile, type the following: rm myfile. To delete all the files in the mydir directory, one by one, type the following: rm -i mydir/* After each file name displays, type y and press Enter to delete the file. Or to keep the file, just press Enter.

Delete the directory and its contents: To delete the directory and all its contents, use the rm command with the -r option, which stands for recursive. Type rm -r my_directory and press "Enter". You will be prompted to confirm the deletion. Type y and press "Enter" to confirm.

Type "rm -R folder-name" where "folder-name" is the folder with the contents you want to delete permanently.

To permanently delete files in Linux using a file manager, select the files you want to delete and press the ?Shift + Delete? keys together. It is also a good practice to empty the ?Trash? from time to time to restore much-needed storage space on your Linux device.