SOLVED A small question, please on removing media through shell.

[zazza]

Hello,
I forced myself last year to go from zero knowledge of Freenas to at least 1% precent proficient in a year.
I recently was forced into 11.2 by screwing up a Plex update. The past 100 hours of my life have been trying to learn 11.2.
I no longer want to mess with my permissions to delete movies from the GUI. Im afraid Ill break it again. There was a lot of (too Lax 077 stuff)
So, my question is, how do I delete from the shell. Pick any film on here and teach me please. Ive tried a whole bunch of "rm" to no avail.

Grateful,
Wazza

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

They are directories so

Code:

rm -r Toy\ Story\ 4\ \(2019\)

 

[zazza]

They are directories so

Code:

rm -r Toy\ Story\ 4\ \(2019\)

That is excellent. Thank you very much!

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

No worries. In case you didn't know you can use Tab on your keyboard to auto-complete file/directory names so, for example, you could enter:

Code:

rm -r Toy

followed by the Tab key and it will auto-populate the rest.

 

[zazza]

No worries. In case you didn't know you can use Tab on your keyboard to auto-complete file/directory names so, for example, you could enter:

Code:

rm -r Toy

followed by the Tab key and it will auto-populate the rest.

That just made my day! Fantastic!!

 

[ethereal]

you can also use midnight commander

mc at the shell

you have a lot more options with mc - move/rename/delete etc. you can also select multiple items to work on

 

[danb35]

you can also use midnight commander

...which is probably the best answer for someone who's a bit of a n00b at the shell (and even for experienced users in many cases).

 

[zazza]

Thank you Ethereal.

 

[Chris Moore]

Thank you Ethereal.

Here is a demo video of Midnight Commander:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWu2R9cn_b8

 

[zazza]

That will be my weekend seminar!