Vivek Shukla - Bash
I am a Software Engineer from India. I am currently building Daestro. I work in Rust, Javascript and Python.
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2025-03-18T00:00:00+00:00
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Delete All Rust Target Dirs
2025-03-18T00:00:00+00:00
2025-03-18T00:00:00+00:00
Vivek Shukla
https://vshukla.com/snippets/delete-all-rust-target-dirs/
Shell script to delete the 'target' directory recursively
<pre class="giallo z-code"><code data-lang="shellscript"><span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-comment">#!/bin/bash</span></span>
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<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-comment"># Function to delete the 'target' directory recursively</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-entity z-name z-function">delete_target</span><span class="z-punctuation z-section">() {</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-storage"> local</span><span class="z-variable"> dir</span><span class="z-keyword z-operator">=</span><span class="z-string">"</span><span class="z-variable z-parameter">$1</span><span class="z-string">"</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-comment"> # Loop through all items in the current directory</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-keyword"> for</span><span class="z-variable"> item</span><span class="z-keyword"> in</span><span class="z-string"> "</span><span class="z-variable">$dir</span><span class="z-string">"/*</span><span class="z-punctuation z-terminator">;</span><span class="z-keyword"> do</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-keyword"> if</span><span> [[</span><span class="z-keyword z-operator"> -d</span><span class="z-string"> "</span><span class="z-variable">$item</span><span class="z-string">"</span><span> ]]</span><span class="z-punctuation z-terminator">;</span><span class="z-keyword"> then</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-comment"> # If the item is a directory, check if it's named 'target'</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-keyword"> if</span><span> [[ $(</span><span class="z-entity z-name">basename</span><span class="z-string"> "</span><span class="z-variable">$item</span><span class="z-string">"</span><span>)</span><span class="z-keyword z-operator"> ==</span><span class="z-string"> "target"</span><span> ]]</span><span class="z-punctuation z-terminator">;</span><span class="z-keyword"> then</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-support z-function"> echo</span><span class="z-string"> "Deleting directory: </span><span class="z-variable">$item</span><span class="z-string">"</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-entity z-name"> rm</span><span class="z-constant z-other"> -rf</span><span class="z-string"> "</span><span class="z-variable">$item</span><span class="z-string">"</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-keyword"> else</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-comment"> # If not 'target', recurse into this directory</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-entity z-name"> delete_target</span><span class="z-string"> "</span><span class="z-variable">$item</span><span class="z-string">"</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-keyword"> fi</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-keyword"> fi</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-keyword"> done</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-punctuation z-section">}</span></span>
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<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-comment"># Start the recursive deletion from the current directory</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-entity z-name">delete_target</span><span class="z-string"> "."</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-comment"># Check if the current directory itself is named 'target'</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-keyword">if</span><span> [[ $(</span><span class="z-entity z-name">basename</span><span class="z-string"> "</span><span class="z-variable">$PWD</span><span class="z-string">"</span><span>)</span><span class="z-keyword z-operator"> ==</span><span class="z-string"> "target"</span><span> ]]</span><span class="z-punctuation z-terminator">;</span><span class="z-keyword"> then</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-support z-function"> echo</span><span class="z-string"> "The current directory is named 'target'. It cannot be deleted from within itself."</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-support z-function"> echo</span><span class="z-string"> "Please run this script from outside the 'target' directory if you wish to delete it."</span></span>
<span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-keyword">fi</span></span></code></pre>