Version v1.54.0

docs/content/commands/rclone_delete.md

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 title: "rclone delete"
-description: "Remove the contents of path."
+description: "Remove the files in path."
 slug: rclone_delete
 url: /commands/rclone_delete/
 # autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/delete/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"
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 # rclone delete
 
-Remove the contents of path.
+Remove the files in path.
 
 ## Synopsis
 
@@ -15,20 +15,21 @@ Remove the contents of path.
 Remove the files in path.  Unlike `purge` it obeys include/exclude
 filters so can be used to selectively delete files.
 
-`rclone delete` only deletes objects but leaves the directory structure
+`rclone delete` only deletes files but leaves the directory structure
 alone. If you want to delete a directory and all of its contents use
-`rclone purge`
+the `purge` command.
 
-If you supply the --rmdirs flag, it will remove all empty directories along with it.
+If you supply the `--rmdirs` flag, it will remove all empty directories along with it.
+You can also use the separate command `rmdir` or `rmdirs` to
+delete empty directories only.
 
-Eg delete all files bigger than 100MBytes
-
-Check what would be deleted first (use either)
+For example, to delete all files bigger than 100MBytes, you may first want to check what
+would be deleted (use either):
 
     rclone --min-size 100M lsl remote:path
     rclone --dry-run --min-size 100M delete remote:path
 
-Then delete
+Then proceed with the actual delete:
 
     rclone --min-size 100M delete remote:path