command question

command question

[Eric Kosten]

How does one remove all dirs and files reguardless if they are empty?

Re: command question

[Gregory Nowak]

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rm -rf directory_name

Greg


On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:33:24PM -0400, Eric Kosten wrote:
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Re: command question

[Darcy Burnard]

rm -rf directory
Where directory is the name of the directory you start deleting from.


On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Eric Kosten wrote:

> How does one remove all dirs and files reguardless if they are empty?
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Re: command question

[Laura Eaves]

rm -rf fileanddirnames...
But obviously you need to do this with care...
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Subject: command question


How does one remove all dirs and files reguardless if they are empty?
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Re: command question

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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If you want to remove an unempty directory, type:

rm -R <dir>

Note that this *will* remove an empty directory as well.

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