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     1  ---
     2  date: 2019-06-20T16:09:42+01:00
     3  title: "rclone delete"
     4  slug: rclone_delete
     5  url: /commands/rclone_delete/
     6  ---
     7  ## rclone delete
     8  
     9  Remove the contents of path.
    10  
    11  ### Synopsis
    12  
    13  
    14  Remove the files in path.  Unlike `purge` it obeys include/exclude
    15  filters so can be used to selectively delete files.
    16  
    17  `rclone delete` only deletes objects but leaves the directory structure
    18  alone. If you want to delete a directory and all of its contents use
    19  `rclone purge`
    20  
    21  Eg delete all files bigger than 100MBytes
    22  
    23  Check what would be deleted first (use either)
    24  
    25      rclone --min-size 100M lsl remote:path
    26      rclone --dry-run --min-size 100M delete remote:path
    27  
    28  Then delete
    29  
    30      rclone --min-size 100M delete remote:path
    31  
    32  That reads "delete everything with a minimum size of 100 MB", hence
    33  delete all files bigger than 100MBytes.
    34  
    35  
    36  ```
    37  rclone delete remote:path [flags]
    38  ```
    39  
    40  ### Options
    41  
    42  ```
    43    -h, --help   help for delete
    44  ```
    45  
    46  See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.
    47  
    48  ### SEE ALSO
    49  
    50  * [rclone](/commands/rclone/)	 - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
    51