g.remove(1)

💖 g.remove — the GRASS GIS manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so this is g.remove(1), straight out of the GRASS GIS User's Manual. yes it's a manual page. no it's not boring. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

g.remove — removes data base element files from the user's current mapset using the search pattern. that's it, that's the whole job, and it does it flawlessly 💅

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🏷️ KEYWORDS 🏷️

general, map management, remove

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

g.remove
g.remove --help
g.remove [-irefb] type=datatype[,datatype,...]
[ignore=string[,string,...]]
[pattern=string]   [exclude=string]   [--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]
[--ui]

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🌸 Flags 🌸

• -i — ignore case. capital letters? lowercase letters? it does not care, it's above such things 💅
• -r — use basic regular expressions instead of wildcards
• -e — use extended regular expressions instead of wildcards
• -f — force removal. and bestie, this one is the real one: it's required for actual deletion of files. no -f, no delete. periodt.
• -b — remove base raster maps
• --help — print usage summary
• --verbose — verbose module output
• --quiet — quiet module output
• --ui — force launching GUI dialog

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🧚 Parameters 🧚

• type=datatype[,datatype,...] — [required] the data type(s) you're coming for.
  • Options: raster, raster_3d, vector, label, region, group, all
  • raster: raster map(s)
  • raster_3d: 3D raster map(s)
  • vector: vector map(s)
  • label: paint label file(s)
  • region: region definition(s)
  • group: imagery group(s)
  • all: all types
• name=string[,string,...] — name of file(s) to remove
• ignore=string[,string,...] — name of file(s) to ignore (default: none)
• pattern=string — file name search pattern
• exclude=string — file name exclusion pattern (default: none)

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so g.remove removes data files matching a pattern, and that pattern can be either wildcards or POSIX Extended Regular Expressions. you pick your fighter 🥊

and here's the plot twist: if you do not pass the -f force flag, nothing gets removed. instead the list of selected file names gets printed to stdout as a preview of the files that would be deleted. it's giving window shopping. it's giving "let me think about it". iconic behaviour tbh 🌈

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

Delete map1 and map2 raster maps in the current mapset:

g.remove -f type=raster name=tmp1,tmp2

Delete all raster and vector maps starting with "tmp_" in the current mapset:

# show matching raster and vector maps but do not delete yet (as verification)
g.remove type=raster,vector pattern="tmp_*"
# actually delete the matching raster and vector maps
g.remove -f type=raster,vector pattern="tmp_*"

Delete all vector maps starting with "stream_" in the current mapset, but exclude those ending with "_final":

g.remove -f type=vector pattern="stream_*" exclude="*_final"

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Huidae Cho grass4u@gmail.com

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⭐ SOURCE CODE ⭐

Available at: g.remove source code (history)

Accessed: Saturday Jan 17 05:40:40 2026

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okay and for the cute sign-off 🎀 — this whole thing lives under the GRASS GIS 8.4.2 Reference Manual, © 2003-2025 GRASS Development Team, and yeah the version stamp says GRASS 8.4.2 with g.remove(1) chillin' at the bottom. now go forth and delete responsibly, bestie, and remember: no -f, no files gone 💖✨🦋