deleting non-empty directories

deleting non-empty directories

[Glenn at home]

I have been trying to remove some messed up directories in my ftp 
directories.
I have tried rmdir DirName
and this does not work because they are not empty, and I cannot get into 
them since their folder names are causing me problems.
What is the command for deleting non-empty folders?
Thanks

Re: deleting non-empty directories

[Gregory Nowak]

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rm -r DirName

Greg


On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:37:05PM -0600, Glenn at home wrote:
> I have been trying to remove some messed up directories in my ftp 
> directories.
> I have tried rmdir DirName
> and this does not work because they are not empty, and I cannot get into 
> them since their folder names are causing me problems.
> What is the command for deleting non-empty folders?
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
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Re: deleting non-empty directories

[Luke Yelavich]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:37:05PM EST, Glenn at home wrote:
> I have been trying to remove some messed up directories in my ftp 
> directories.
> I have tried rmdir DirName
> and this does not work because they are not empty, and I cannot get into 
> them since their folder names are causing me problems.
> What is the command for deleting non-empty folders?

rm -r directory-name

Luke

Thanks Luke.Re: deleting non-empty directories

[Glenn at home]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luke Yelavich" <themuso@themuso.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: deleting non-empty directories


On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:37:05PM EST, Glenn at home wrote:
> I have been trying to remove some messed up directories in my ftp 
> directories.
> I have tried rmdir DirName
> and this does not work because they are not empty, and I cannot get into 
> them since their folder names are causing me problems.
> What is the command for deleting non-empty folders?

rm -r directory-name

Luke

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Re: deleting non-empty directories

[Joseph C. Lininger]

Glen,
Try this:

rm -rf "dirname"

Notice the quotation marks.

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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Glenn at home wrote:

> I have been trying to remove some messed up directories in my ftp
> directories.
> I have tried rmdir DirName
> and this does not work because they are not empty, and I cannot get into
> them since their folder names are causing me problems.
> What is the command for deleting non-empty folders?
> Thanks
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: deleting non-empty directories

[Sean McMahon]

Go to the directory above the directory you want to delete and type rm-rf
directory name.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:37 PM
Subject: deleting non-empty directories


> I have been trying to remove some messed up directories in my ftp
> directories.
> I have tried rmdir DirName
> and this does not work because they are not empty, and I cannot get into
> them since their folder names are causing me problems.
> What is the command for deleting non-empty folders?
> Thanks
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: deleting non-empty directories

[Lorenzo Prince]

Try

rm -R <dirname>

If You can use tab completion if the name is causing you problems.

Lorenzo