Comments on: Easily Delete Files Using Terminal

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:32:28 +0000

What does deleting the entire hard drive exactly do to the computer?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:44:23 +0000

HELP, is there anyway to undo my deleted files from terminal, unfortunately I am the idiot that deleted his hard drive.

By: rob

rob — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:26:15 +0000

jk, you didn’t do something stupid. the author should have given more warning at the beginning like this, “WARNING DO NOT DO ANY COMMANDS UNTIL YOU’VE READ THE ENTIRE PAGE!” I made the same mistake and now i’m restoring things to my hard drive using time machine.

By: Austin

Austin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:53:36 +0000

rm is dangerous! no way to recover files afterward. While all these commands are extremely useful, it helps to run the command with rm replaced by ls first, to see exactly what it is you are deleting.

By: jk

jk — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:58:28 +0000

oh my god.. i did the stupidest thing.. i thought your first command was for starting up before deleting.. and end up deleting the whole thing.. is there anyway to recover them?

By: Alfredo

Alfredo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:24:06 +0000

Hello I have a file in the windows drive that seems so be a virus but when I run windows and try to get rid of it using the antivirus it just didn’t delete it. The file name is mb9x.exe and I was trying to delete it using terminal from the other drive in my mac.. how can I do this? sorry about my bad english

By: Geo ^^

Geo ^^ — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:15:41 +0000

Thanks a bunch! It saved me from an annoying kext that gave me kernel panics over and over again…
I’ve just deleted it from the Mac’s Install Disk Terminal and it worked! Thanks again.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:41:51 +0000

Try sudo rm -rf /path/to/file

By: Mr sunshine

Mr sunshine — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:31:17 +0000

i’m having trouble with a damn windows file that’s stuck on a fat32 formatted external hard drive.
it’s called “RECYCLER”
i’ve run a bunch of rf commands in the terminal. and i’m not too savvy.
but it STILL! gives me an “operation not permitted” reply in the terminal window.

PLEASE HELP