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Best way to delete seleted files

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by pushkarawal, Jun 27, 2013.

  1. pushkarawal

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    Hi,

    I want to remove some files from public_html but Cpanel taking too long to fetch. Is there better way to search and delete a particular file without fecthing whole directory.


    Thanks
     
    #1 pushkarawal, Jun 27, 2013
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    You can use FTP for that purpose but it'd be really easy if you have the access to the server, do you?
     
    #2 faisikhan, Jun 28, 2013
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    Access to server ? Did you mean physically access - NO. I have access to whm and cpanel.
     
    #3 pushkarawal, Jun 28, 2013
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    Hi,

    If you have WHM root access then you can ssh to server as root and use following command to find a particular file and delete it.

    find . -type f -name "file name to find" -exec rm -f {} \;
     
    #4 HostingH, Jun 28, 2013
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    Well that is the best and the quickest command to delete the unwanted files immediately. I also use that one.
     
    #5 faisikhan, Jul 1, 2013
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    FTP and SSH are alternatives to File Manager if you need to remove a file from a directory.

    Thank you.
     
    #6 cPanelMichael, Jul 1, 2013
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    Hello,

    Yes, I will suggest you to use SSH command to delete the selected files from your public_html directory

     
    #7 24x7server, Jul 1, 2013
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