Gentoo Linux Terminal Tutorial for Beginners

Deleting

7. 7. Annihilating

   Finally, we try investigating our Magical Destroying Powers
   Deleting Directories and Files!

   Especially Releant: in a Working Environment you should Triple Check the Commands Before Execution…
   Because in the Shell Environment there’s No Trash Bin and so the stuff is directly Annihilated!!!

   [And as you may have already wittily perceived, here “Removing” is just Resumed in “rm“]

   • How Removing Files.

     First, we Wipe Out the ‘box’ in the ‘livingroom’ with:

     rm $HOME/livingroom/box

     Check it with:

     ls $HOME/livingroom/

     Now we try the same for Multiple Entities…
     First, we Make a Copy of the ‘can’ into then ‘bathroom’ in a ‘jar’ into the ‘bedroom’, Magically as before… :)) with:

     cp $HOME/bathroom/can $HOME/bedroom/jar

     And now how to brutally Get Rid of Both? Simply like that:

     rm $HOME/bathroom/can $HOME/bedroom/jar

   • How Removing Directories.

     Now we Start to furiously Destroying our nice Home… [[[:
     First, we Raze the ‘livingroom’:

     rm -rf $HOME/livingroom

     “-rf” is a combination of Flags. “r” for Recursively and “f” for Forced
     And finally, finally, we simply Desert All-in-one the Remaining Habitats:

     rm -rf ~/bathroom ~/bedroom ~/garden

   Sorry, we have Turned our Home into Empty Space, but What a JOKE! {{{: