Linux: How to delete all of the files (not directories) inside a directory itself (not childs)

Question

There are some files in a directory whose names is not usual (Eg in unicode format). How to delete them?

Answer 1

First, find the files and then delete them:

find [dir_path] -maxdepth 1 -type f  | xargs rm -rf

Above is simple and not works when there is a space in any of file name(s). So, I've written a complex and complete command to handle spaces also:

find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type f  | awk -F '/' '{printf "'\''%s'\''\n",$2}' | xargs rm -rf

" -maxdepth 1 " means just from the directory not childs. In the other means, not recursive find. As you know, " xargs " executes a following command on the list sent to it.

Answer 2

You can just use the rm :

rm .* *

It doesn't delete directories and doesn't recurse into them by default.