mjhjmtu

What command do I have to use to delete all directories that begin with "graphene-80"

What can I add to the "rm" command as option?

Using find command:

find /tmp -type d -name 'graphene-80*' -delete

Arguments used:

• 
  -type to filter directory only and avoid finding files


• 
  -name to find file that match the pattern define between quotes


• 
  -delete to delete the result of the find command

EDIT:
cleaner with -delete like shown in this post:
Find files matching template and remove

To delete the directories matching the pattern graphene-80* directly under /tmp, use

rm -rf /tmp/graphene-80*/

Here, the trailing / ensures that only directories whose names match the graphene-80* pattern are deleted, and not files etc.

To find the matching directories elsewhere under /tmp and delete them wherever they may be (or to handle the case where there are too many matching names resulting in a too long command), use

find /tmp -depth -type d -name 'graphene-80*' -prune -exec rm -rf ';'

To additionally see the names of the directories as they are deleted, insert -print before -exec. Inserting -print after -exec will print the names of directories succesfully deleted.

To remove just empty directories with names matching graphene-80*, either

find /tmp -type d -name "graphene-80*" -exec rmdir +

or

find /tmp -type d -name "graphene-80*" -delete

(rmdir and GNU find should give you errors for the nonempty ones.)

To remove the directories with their contents:

find /tmp -type d -name "graphene-80*" -exec rm -r ; -prune

(With -exec rm + you may get errors from rm if there are nested matching directories; and without -prune, from find since it tries to descend to the just-removed directories.)