Try this:
rm /path/to/directory1/*
by adding the -r
option you can additionally remove contained directories and their content recursively.
Question
I want to know how I can remove all the files in a directory say directory1 contains some 100 files. I just want to remove the files and not the directory.
I know that rmdir directory1
will remove directory1 completely. But I want to only remove all the files inside.
Solution
Try this:
rm /path/to/directory1/*
by adding the -r
option you can additionally remove contained directories and their content recursively.
OTHER TIPS
find /path/to/directory1 -type f | xargs rm -f
This recursively deletes all normal files in the directory.