This guide explains how to delete a folder or file via SSH, which can be particularly useful when it is impossible to delete a file with an FTP software/client or the FTP Manager.

SSH command to delete a folder/file

To delete a file or a directory, you must use the rm command.

To delete the files NomDuFichier.php and NomDuFichier.txt, you should for example execute the following command:

rm NomDuFichier.php NomDuFichier.txt

To delete a directory, you must first delete its contents and then use the following command:

rmdir NomDuDossier/

To delete all files in html format, you need to run the following command:

rm *.html

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