rclone/docs/content/commands/rclone_delete.md

---
date: 2016-08-04T21:37:09+01:00
title: "rclone delete"
slug: rclone_delete
url: /commands/rclone_delete/
---
## rclone delete

Remove the contents of path.

### Synopsis



Remove the contents of path.  Unlike `purge` it obeys include/exclude
filters so can be used to selectively delete files.

Eg delete all files bigger than 100MBytes

Check what would be deleted first (use either)

    rclone --min-size 100M lsl remote:path
    rclone --dry-run --min-size 100M delete remote:path

Then delete

    rclone --min-size 100M delete remote:path

That reads "delete everything with a minimum size of 100 MB", hence
delete all files bigger than 100MBytes.


```
rclone delete remote:path
```

### Options inherited from parent commands

```
      --acd-templink-threshold value   Files >= this size will be downloaded via their tempLink. (default 9G)
      --ask-password                   Allow prompt for password for encrypted configuration. (default true)
      --b2-chunk-size value            Upload chunk size. Must fit in memory. (default 96M)
      --b2-test-mode string            A flag string for X-Bz-Test-Mode header.
      --b2-upload-cutoff value         Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 190.735M)
      --b2-versions                    Include old versions in directory listings.
      --bwlimit value                  Bandwidth limit in kBytes/s, or use suffix b|k|M|G
      --checkers int                   Number of checkers to run in parallel. (default 8)
  -c, --checksum                       Skip based on checksum & size, not mod-time & size
      --config string                  Config file. (default "/home/ncw/.rclone.conf")
      --contimeout duration            Connect timeout (default 1m0s)
      --cpuprofile string              Write cpu profile to file
      --delete-after                   When synchronizing, delete files on destination after transfering
      --delete-before                  When synchronizing, delete files on destination before transfering
      --delete-during                  When synchronizing, delete files during transfer (default)
      --delete-excluded                Delete files on dest excluded from sync
      --drive-auth-owner-only          Only consider files owned by the authenticated user. Requires drive-full-list.
      --drive-chunk-size value         Upload chunk size. Must a power of 2 >= 256k. (default 8M)
      --drive-formats string           Comma separated list of preferred formats for downloading Google docs. (default "docx,xlsx,pptx,svg")
      --drive-full-list                Use a full listing for directory list. More data but usually quicker. (obsolete)
      --drive-upload-cutoff value      Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 8M)
      --drive-use-trash                Send files to the trash instead of deleting permanently.
      --dropbox-chunk-size value       Upload chunk size. Max 150M. (default 128M)
  -n, --dry-run                        Do a trial run with no permanent changes
      --dump-bodies                    Dump HTTP headers and bodies - may contain sensitive info
      --dump-filters                   Dump the filters to the output
      --dump-headers                   Dump HTTP headers - may contain sensitive info
      --exclude string                 Exclude files matching pattern
      --exclude-from string            Read exclude patterns from file
      --files-from string              Read list of source-file names from file
  -f, --filter string                  Add a file-filtering rule
      --filter-from string             Read filtering patterns from a file
      --ignore-existing                Skip all files that exist on destination
      --ignore-size                    Ignore size when skipping use mod-time or checksum.
  -I, --ignore-times                   Don't skip files that match size and time - transfer all files
      --include string                 Include files matching pattern
      --include-from string            Read include patterns from file
      --log-file string                Log everything to this file
      --low-level-retries int          Number of low level retries to do. (default 10)
      --max-age string                 Don't transfer any file older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y
      --max-depth int                  If set limits the recursion depth to this. (default -1)
      --max-size value                 Don't transfer any file larger than this in k or suffix b|k|M|G (default off)
      --memprofile string              Write memory profile to file
      --min-age string                 Don't transfer any file younger than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y
      --min-size value                 Don't transfer any file smaller than this in k or suffix b|k|M|G (default off)
      --modify-window duration         Max time diff to be considered the same (default 1ns)
      --no-check-certificate           Do not verify the server SSL certificate. Insecure.
      --no-gzip-encoding               Don't set Accept-Encoding: gzip.
      --no-traverse                    Don't traverse destination file system on copy.
      --no-update-modtime              Don't update destination mod-time if files identical.
      --onedrive-chunk-size value      Above this size files will be chunked - must be multiple of 320k. (default 10M)
      --onedrive-upload-cutoff value   Cutoff for switching to chunked upload - must be <= 100MB (default 10M)
  -q, --quiet                          Print as little stuff as possible
      --retries int                    Retry operations this many times if they fail (default 3)
      --size-only                      Skip based on size only, not mod-time or checksum
      --stats duration                 Interval to print stats (0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      --swift-chunk-size value         Above this size files will be chunked into a _segments container. (default 5G)
      --timeout duration               IO idle timeout (default 5m0s)
      --transfers int                  Number of file transfers to run in parallel. (default 4)
  -u, --update                         Skip files that are newer on the destination.
  -v, --verbose                        Print lots more stuff
```

### SEE ALSO
* [rclone](/commands/rclone/)	 - Sync files and directories to and from local and remote object stores - v1.32

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