g.remove(1grass)

✨ g.remove ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the g.remove page from the GRASS User's Manual (that's g.remove(1grass) if you're being formal 💅). This is the one that deletes data base element files out of your current mapset using a search pattern. Big main character energy. Cleaning up your mapset is self care, fr fr 🧹✨

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🌸 KEYWORDS 🌸

general, map management, remove

like... the vibe is literally in the keywords. it's giving "spring cleaning" 🦋

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👑 SYNOPSIS 👑

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

🎀 Flags 🎀

• -i — ignore case, bestie. TMP_1 and tmp_1 are the same girl now 🙈
• -r — use basic regular expressions instead of wildcards
• -e — use extended regular expressions instead of wildcards
• -f — force removal — and like, this one is not optional-optional, it's required for actual deletion of files 😭 no -f, no delete, that's the rule
• -b — remove base raster maps
• --help — print usage summary
• --verbose — verbose module output
• --quiet — quiet module output
• --ui — force launching GUI dialog

🦋 Parameters 🦋

• type=datatype[,datatype,...] [required] — the data type(s), you have to tell her what to remove
  • 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, just say their names bestie
• 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 given by wildcards or POSIX Extended Regular Expressions. she's flexible like that ✨

but here's the plot twist that saves your whole life: if the -f force flag is not given, then nothing is removed. instead, the list of selected file names gets printed to stdout as a preview of the files that would be deleted. it's a vibe check before the actual vibe check. literally the safest energy. so you can peek at what's about to get deleted before you commit 💀➡️🫶

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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"

see how the first tmp_ one runs without -f first?? that's the "look before you leap" moment and honestly it ate 👑

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Huidae Cho grass4u@gmail.com

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⭐ SOURCE CODE ⭐

Available at: g.remove source code (history)

Latest change: Thursday May 08 14:35:40 2025 in commit: 9528b1e38ba37992c1597a979dc3efbb07b74ec5

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and that's the whole page bestie 🫶© 2003-2026 GRASS Development Team, GRASS 8.5.0 Reference Manual, GRASS 8.5.0, g.remove(1grass) — slay, go clean that mapset, but run it without -f first, iykyk 💅🌸