12. Removing things (rm, rmdir)

Removing files or directories (rm, rmdir)

With the Shell, you can use commands to remove files or directories.

Use the workspace below the video to practice the commands and remember to practice locally in your computer too.

Ud206 014 Shell P9 - Removing Things

Commands

  • rm: Delete files.
  • rmdir: Delete directories.

## Workspace

You can use this workspace to test your commands

Workspace

This section contains either a workspace (it can be a Jupyter Notebook workspace or an online code editor work space, etc.) and it cannot be automatically downloaded to be generated here. Please access the classroom with your account and manually download the workspace to your local machine. Note that for some courses, Udacity upload the workspace files onto https://github.com/udacity, so you may be able to download them there.

Workspace Information:

  • Default file path:
  • Workspace type: repl
  • Opened files (when workspace is loaded): n/a

Good file, bad face

You have four files named:

  1. Good File
  2. Bad Name Good File
  3. Bad File
  4. Good Name Bad Face

You want to remove files 3 and 4, while leaving 1 and 2 intact. There are two commands below that will accomplish this goal. Choose them:
SOLUTION:
  • `rm 'Bad File' 'Good Name Bad Face'`
  • `rm *'Bad F'* `

Recomendation

The Shell commands can be installed or not on your computer if you are using Linux or Mac and you have issues running the commands check the documentation specifically for the Operating System.

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