Linux – How delete the content of a directory in Centos

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I need to delete all the content of a folder in CentOS but not the folder itself.

For example: I have a folder named "MYFOLDER" which contains subfolders FOLD_1, FOLD_2, FOLD_3, FOLD_4… etc , and some files. I need to delete all these folders and files but not the container folder MYFOLDER. I need this directory to direct the results of a previous process.

I tried with the rm -rf command, but this delete the container folder too.

Best Answer

Delete the contents of the folder instead.

rm -r MYFOLDER/*

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