Rm command

Removes a “folder” or a set of files matching a pattern. Use with caution.

Note

rm is a high-level command that under the hood utilizes multiple calls to the server, which means the server cannot guarantee consistency between multiple operations. For example if a file matching a pattern is uploaded during a run of rm command, it MIGHT be deleted (as “latest”) instead of the one present when the rm run has started.

In order to safely delete a single file version, please use delete-file-version.

To list (but not remove) files to be deleted, use --dryRun. You can also list files via ls command - the listing behaviour is exactly the same.

Progress is displayed on the console unless --noProgress is specified.

Use –threads to manually adjust number of threads used in the operation. Otherwise, the number of threads will be automatically chosen.

The --versions option selects all versions of each file, not just the most recent.

The --recursive option will descend into folders, and will select only files, not folders.

The --withWildcard option will allow using *, ? and `[]` characters in folderName as a greedy wildcard, single character wildcard and range of characters. It requires the --recursive option. Remember to quote folderName to avoid shell expansion.

The --dryRun option prints all the files that would be affected by the command, but removes nothing.

Normally, when an error happens during file removal, log is printed and the command goes further. If any error should be immediately breaking the command, --failFast can be passed to ensure that first error will stop the execution. This could be useful to e.g. check whether provided credentials have deleteFiles capabilities.

Note

Using --failFast doesn’t prevent the command from trying to remove further files. It just stops the progress. Since multiple files are removed in parallel, it’s possible that just some of them were not reported.

Command returns 0 if all files were removed successfully and a value different from 0 if any file was left.

Examples.

Note

Note the use of quotes, to ensure that special characters are not expanded by the shell.

Note

Use with caution. Running examples presented below can cause data-loss.

Remove all csv and tsv files (in any directory, in the whole bucket):

b2 rm --recursive --withWildcard bucketName "*.[ct]sv"

Remove all info.txt files from buckets bX, where X is any character:

b2 rm --recursive --withWildcard bucketName "b?/info.txt"

Remove all pdf files from buckets b0 to b9 (including sub-directories):

b2 rm --recursive --withWildcard bucketName "b[0-9]/*.pdf"

Requires capability:

• listFiles

• deleteFiles

b2 rm [-h] [--profile PROFILE] [--dryRun] [--queueSize QUEUESIZE]
      [--noProgress] [--failFast] [--threads THREADS] [--versions]
      [--recursive] [--withWildcard]
      bucketName [folderName]

Positional Arguments

bucketName

folderName

Named Arguments

--profile

--dryRun

Default: False

--queueSize

max elements fetched at once for removal, if left unset defaults to twice the number of threads.

--noProgress

Default: False

--failFast

Default: False

--threads

--versions

Default: False

--recursive

Default: False

--withWildcard

Default: False