So, whether you're using a desktop file manager or working from the terminal's command-line interface, we'll show you how to delete a file in Linux operating systems quickly and safely.

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 ...

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.

Remove duplicate lines with uniq If you don’t need to preserve the order of the lines in the file, using the sort and uniq commands will do what you need in a very straightforward way. The sort ...

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 ...

Web site Hackaddict.net demonstrates how to remove the contents of a plain text file on Windows, Linux, and Mac without manually deleting the file and recreating it. This can be done by copying ...

find / -path /proc -prune -false -o -name 'dev.conf' What that command does is search the entire filesystem for a file named dev.conf, but leaves out the /proc directory in the process.