Delete a user ( ‘-r’ eliminates home directory)

userdel -r user1

This command removes the SVN data from a folder.

find -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \;

Removes all exe files in the current directory tree. Useful to clear virus from flash drives.

find . -name "*.exe" -delete

Use this command to remove a rpm package.

yum remove package_name

Force delete a file

rm -f file

Remove comments and blank lines from example.pl

sed '/ *#/d; /^$/d' example.pl

Remove all empty directories within the current directory

find . -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
perl -MFile::Find -e"finddepth(sub{rmdir},'.')"

Delete Empty Directories
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