drm

SYNOPSIS

drm [OPTION] PATH...

DESCRIPTION

Parallel MPI application to recursively delete a directory and its contents.

drm is a tool for removing files recursively in parallel. Be careful: drm behaves like rm -rf, but it is much faster.

OPTIONS

-i, --input FILE

Read source list from FILE. FILE must be generated by another tool from the mpiFileUtils suite.

-l, --lite

Walk file system without stat.

--exclude REGEX

Do not remove items whose full path matches REGEX, processed by regexec(3).

--match REGEX

Only remove items whose full path matches REGEX, processed by regexec(3).

--name

Change --exclude and match to apply to item name rather than its full path.

-d, --dryrun

Print a list of files that would be deleted without deleting them. This is useful to check list of items satisfying --exclude or --match options before actually deleting anything.

-v, --verbose

Run in verbose mode.

-h, --help

Print a brief message listing the drm(1) options and usage.

EXAMPLES

1. To delete a directory and its contents:

mpirun -np 128 drm -v /dir/to/delete

2. Delete all items (files and directories) ending with .core from directory tree:

mpirun -np 128 drm --match '.core$' /dir/to/delete/from

3. List items that would be deleted without removing them:

mpirun -np 128 drm --dryrun --match '.core$' /dir/to/delete/from

4. Delete all items named foo:

mpirun -np 128 drm --name --match '^foo$' /dir/to/delete/from

SEE ALSO

The mpiFileUtils source code and all documentation may be downloaded from <https://github.com/hpc/mpifileutils>