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I am using rm -rf command to delete data from the folder.

Before deleting I want to know the file name and size that has been deleted from that folder and update in a log file. So that I can know which files are deleted from that folder.

I am using ubuntu 14.04. Is there any possible way?

By using the -v argument you can see (log) everything that is being deleted.
For more, like file size, you need to create a script that parses each directory and file, log the info you want and then delete them.

temp (directory) 

 |- 1 (directory)

    |- 2  (directory)

       |-- 3.ge (file)







user@laptop:~$ rm -rfv temp

removed 'temp/1/2/3.ge'

removed directory 'temp/1/2'

removed directory 'temp/1'

removed directory 'temp'

If you just want to know wich files where deleted you can use the -v option with rm, like P. Iakovakis already explained.

If you want to simulate the deletion process and get a list which files are going to be deleted before executing the rm command you can use ls -shR with the delete parameter from rm:

Folder structure:

List files before deletion:

$ ls -shR folder-to-delete

folder-to-delete:

total 20K

4.0K folder  4.0K test  4.0K test1  4.0K test2  4.0K test3



folder-to-delete/folder:

total 8.0K

4.0K test  4.0K test2

Delete files and list them afterwards:

$ rm -rfv folder-to-delete

removed 'folder-to-delete/test'

removed 'folder-to-delete/folder/test'

removed 'folder-to-delete/folder/test2'

removed directory 'folder-to-delete/folder'

removed 'folder-to-delete/test2'

removed 'folder-to-delete/test1'

removed 'folder-to-delete/test3'

removed directory 'folder-to-delete'

Maybe you want to add the -l option to ls to get a list representation and more information of the files:

$ ls -shRl folder-to-delete      

folder-to-delete:

total 20K

4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Mar  5 19:15 folder

4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    5 Mar  5 19:15 test

4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    6 Mar  5 19:15 test1

4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    6 Mar  5 19:15 test2

4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    6 Mar  5 19:15 test3



folder-to-delete/folder:

total 8.0K

4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 Mar  5 19:15 test

4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Mar  5 19:15 test2