To delete a file, you need to use is the rm command and tell it what file or files you want it to delete. If you are in the directory containing the file to be deleted, you only need to type: ...

Written by Jack Wallen In another entry of his Linux 101 series, Jack Wallen shows you how to delete files and folders from Linux using the Command Line Interface (CLI). Image: Jack Wallen ...

Many storage commands in Linux have the ability to delete your data, which you can accidently do if you're not careful. Proceed with caution if you're a newcomer, and always remember to keep a backup ...

There are many ways to remove duplicate lines from a text file on Linux, but here are two that involve the awk and uniq commands and that offer slightly different results. Remove duplicate lines ...

From the command line, type "backup.bat" and the batch file will run your specified commands: first, copying all files from that directory, then renaming them to remove the extensions.

Take the commands in this article as an example: the rm command allows you to remove (or delete) files. The rmdir command does the same to directories (also known as folders).

This utility can be used to delete expressions from a file which can be identified by a specifying delimiter (such as a comma, tab, or space), by line number, or by searching for a string, expression ...