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alhelal
Asked: 2018-11-08 01:18:23 +0800 CST

How to trash some file from a different directory without typing the directory each times?

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Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

    deleted:    Assignment_3/Apriori/bodon_trie.pdf
    deleted:    Assignment_3/Apriori/farhanSir.pdf
    deleted:    Assignment_3/Apriori/output.txt~
    deleted:    Assignment_4/Comparision/report.aux
    deleted:    Assignment_4/Comparision/report.log
    deleted:    Assignment_4/FPGrowth/FPGrowth.class
    deleted:    Assignment_4/FPGrowth/FPGrowthApplication.class
    deleted:    Assignment_4/FPGrowth/Node.class
    deleted:    Assignment_4/FPGrowth/Result.class

This is the output of git status. I want to delete this from git cache using git rm --cache Assignment_3/Apriori/boden_trie.pdf ?/farhanSir.pdf I don't want to type Assignment_3/Apriori for each file.

command-line git

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Use Bash brace expansion:

    git rm --cache Assignment_3/Apriori/{boden_trie.pdf,farhanSir.pdf}
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  2. You can install bleachbit and it has an option for deleting files or folders.

    sudo apt-get install bleachbit
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