/rclone_purge

title: "rclone purge"
description: "Remove the path and all of its contents."
# autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/purge/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"

> **Official documentation:** [https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_purge/](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_purge/)

rclone purge

Remove the path and all of its contents.

Synopsis

Remove the path and all of its contents. Note that this does not obey include/exclude filters - everything will be removed. Use the [delete](/commands/rclone_delete/) command if you want to selectively delete files. To delete empty directories only, use command [rmdir](/commands/rclone_rmdir/) or [rmdirs](/commands/rclone_rmdirs/).

The concurrency of this operation is controlled by the `--checkers` global flag. However, some backends will implement this command directly, in which case `--checkers` will be ignored.

**Important**: Since this can cause data loss, test first with the `--dry-run` or the `--interactive`/`-i` flag.

rclone purge remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for purge

Options shared with other commands are described next. See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.

Important Options

Important flags useful for most commands

  -n, --dry-run         Do a trial run with no permanent changes
  -i, --interactive     Enable interactive mode
  -v, --verbose count   Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)

See Also

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• [rclone](/commands/rclone/) - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.

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