{"id":4310,"date":"2026-07-16T10:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gimitec.com\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:11:15","slug":"rclone-delete-by-file-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gimitec.com\/rclone-delete-by-file-type\/","title":{"rendered":"rclone delete by exclude some of files type"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nuse rclone to delete all file type and except some of them:
\n* –exclude: do not delete these file type
\n* –rmdirs: remove empty folder
\n* dav:\/Files: remote location folder which files need to delete<\/p>\n

cli code as below:
\nrclone delete dav:\/Files --exclude '*.{pdf,doc,docx,odt,ods,png,jpe,jpeg,key,jpg,xls,xlsx,tif,tiff,heic,heif}' --rmdirs
\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

use rclone to delete all file type and except some of them: * –exclude: do not delete these file type * –rmdirs: remove empty folder * dav:\/Files: remote location folder which files need to delete cli code as below: rclone delete dav:\/Files –exclude ‘*.{pdf,doc,docx,odt,ods,png,jpe,jpeg,key,jpg,xls,xlsx,tif,tiff,heic,heif}’ –rmdirs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gimitec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gimitec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gimitec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gimitec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gimitec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/gimitec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"https:\/\/gimitec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gimitec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gimitec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gimitec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gimitec.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}