rclone/docs/content/commands/rclone_delete.md
Nick Craig-Wood 4ee6de5c3e docs: add a new page with global flags and link to it from the command docs
In f544234 we removed the global flags from each command as it was
making each page very big and causing 1000s of lines of duplication in
the man page.

This change adds a new flags page with all the global flags on and
links each command page to it.

Fixes #3273
2019-06-20 16:45:44 +01:00

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---
date: 2019-06-20T16:09:42+01:00
title: "rclone delete"
slug: rclone_delete
url: /commands/rclone_delete/
---
## rclone delete
Remove the contents of path.
### Synopsis
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
alone. If you want to delete a directory and all of its contents use
`rclone purge`
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 [flags]
```
### Options
```
-h, --help help for delete
```
See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.
### SEE ALSO
* [rclone](/commands/rclone/) - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.