how to delete temp and log files with terminal on vps?

Question

Anyone know how to delete any temp and log files or these kind of files on vps with terminal? I'm runnin debian on the vps. I can't locate those files.

Solution

On a debian based machine temporary and log files are probably in

/var/tmp
/tmp
/var/log

or some subdirectory of those paths. However there is no guarantee that a program writes them there. To remove them you probably need root privileges and use rm.

Comments

[Jenny D]

What kind of temp and log files are you worried about? Is it e.g. your browser's cache, or files created by other programs you run?

[Noa]

thanks for the info! since i'm using putty to connect I must type the command to delete them

[Jenny D]

DO NOT recommend using rm -rf without knowing what it does and what the arguments mean!