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What is up everybody this is Jason with Dev soapstar calm and in this video we are going to learn how



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to delete files directories and directories with crap like other files.



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You don't want or need.



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Right.



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So let's do it.



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So we've got a lot of ish here on the terminal so let's go ahead and clear that up.



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So I'm just going to type in the clear command you know what.



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You can also do an attack command a K which will just also clear everything up for you.



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So let's learn how to delete files.



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So right now we're in our services folder.



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Right.



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And our boss comes to us and he's like dude why did you create this cat javascript file.



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Like are you trying to teach kids how to Miano like flight.



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Does it really work.



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And so he needs us to get rid of it.



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So what we can do is we can use a command called r.p.m..



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So our M stands for.



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Remove and remove the file.



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We're now going to write the file name.



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So Katz dot J.



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S. boom it's gone.



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I love it.



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All right.



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Now say your boss comes to you and says dude you made a lot of ridiculous files in here like.



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Like just get rid of these things.



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Well we can actually delete multiple files with this command just like we use the touch command to create



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multiple files.



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We can do the same thing to get rid of them.



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So our AM.



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We don't need the services file any more even though it's packed full of useful information and we don't



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need the master javascript file either.



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So go ahead and hit enter and walla.



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You see it over here in the Finder that the files have been removed.



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That's fantastic.



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All right.



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So pretty easy stuff right.



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Well let's move on to deleting and getting rid of a directory here.



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All right so we've got a services directory which is completely empty.



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And then you can see here that we've got this javascript directory which is completely empty.



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And what I'm going to do real fast.



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Wolmarans services why don't we just throw two files back in here and we're going to use it in a little



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bit for another demonstration here.



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So touch mange.



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Yes.



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And then we'll throw in an H you know file or something.



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All right cool.



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So in our services we now have these two files.



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All right so we're going to go back a directory over here.



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So we're in our services we're going to step back here.



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See the dot dot and we're in our root directory here.



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And what I want to do is remove an entire directory.



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Now there's actually two ways of doing this.



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All right.



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Which is set up really smart so you can remove a directory that's empty.



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All right.



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There's a command for that and there's also a command to remove a directory that is full of files because



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how like tragic and ridiculous Would that be if you could remove a directory full of files and you didn't



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mean to remove it because it's full of really important stuff and you deleted it and it was gone forever.



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All right.



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Now one thing that is so important to note that when we're using this remove command in the terminal



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your stuff is permanently deleted.



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It is new.



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It is out of this world it might be on a flat earth but it's not on this round earth.



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All right.



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So it's gone.



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It's not like the finder where you delete a file and it appears in your trash can.



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It's news forever.



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Remember that burned into your brain.



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All right so we're going to learn how to delete a directory that has nothing in it.



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So that's going to be this javascript file or folder.



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I apologize.



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So we're going to use the r m Dearmer.



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Kind of looks familiar right because we did M-K Derf for make directory.



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Well this is our door for.



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Remove directory.



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Now I already know this is going to remove this empty javascript directory but I want to I want to show



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you the error.



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It's going to give us if we try to remove a directory full of files.



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So in this example I'm going to try out services and it says do the directories not empty.



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Meaning I can't use this command there which is great.



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All right.



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So let's try this again.



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R m Dern J.S..



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OK this is an empty directory.



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Boom there it is.



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It's gone forever.



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There's no way of ever ever getting it back.



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All right.



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So pretty easy now.



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Let's learn how to remove a directory that is full of files.



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So to do that we're going to do our.



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D'oh.



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Dash capital are OK.



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Services BOUM all and that did not work for us and I checking it out I actually use the wrong syntax



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here.



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So to type this incorrectly it would be our m dash capital R.



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We don't need the dollar.



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All right.



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And then services.



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All right so now this command is going to allow us to delete a directory with files in it.



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All right go ahead and press enter and poof it's gone it's gone forever so that is it.



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That is a wrap for this video we have covered some very important commands in the terminal.



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We have learned how to delete files delete directories and the super awesome special command to delete



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directories with files in them.



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All right let's move on.