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     1  ---
     2  title: "rclone delete"
     3  description: "Remove the contents of path."
     4  slug: rclone_delete
     5  url: /commands/rclone_delete/
     6  # autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/delete/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"
     7  ---
     8  # rclone delete
     9  
    10  Remove the contents of path.
    11  
    12  ## Synopsis
    13  
    14  
    15  Remove the files in path.  Unlike `purge` it obeys include/exclude
    16  filters so can be used to selectively delete files.
    17  
    18  `rclone delete` only deletes objects but leaves the directory structure
    19  alone. If you want to delete a directory and all of its contents use
    20  `rclone purge`
    21  
    22  If you supply the --rmdirs flag, it will remove all empty directories along with it.
    23  
    24  Eg delete all files bigger than 100MBytes
    25  
    26  Check what would be deleted first (use either)
    27  
    28      rclone --min-size 100M lsl remote:path
    29      rclone --dry-run --min-size 100M delete remote:path
    30  
    31  Then delete
    32  
    33      rclone --min-size 100M delete remote:path
    34  
    35  That reads "delete everything with a minimum size of 100 MB", hence
    36  delete all files bigger than 100MBytes.
    37  
    38  
    39  ```
    40  rclone delete remote:path [flags]
    41  ```
    42  
    43  ## Options
    44  
    45  ```
    46    -h, --help     help for delete
    47        --rmdirs   rmdirs removes empty directories but leaves root intact
    48  ```
    49  
    50  See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.
    51  
    52  ## SEE ALSO
    53  
    54  * [rclone](/commands/rclone/)	 - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
    55