From: Matthew Stapleton <matthewstapleton@juno.com>
To: pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: recursively removing directories
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 06:04:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020630.060453.-322229.1.matthewstapleton@juno.com> (raw)
The reason I asked is because I expanded a *.tar.gz file to look-at/build
and then decided I needed to erase the directory later....Thanks for the
warning....
Matthew
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 08:26:37 +0000 Richard Adams <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl>
writes:
> On Sunday 30 June 2002 01:44, Matthew Stapleton wrote:
> > How do I recursively remove all the subdirectories and contents of
> a
> > particular directory in Linux? I know of 'rmdir', but this only
> works for
> > empty directories. I need something like DOS's 'deltree'.
>
> You got 2 other answers to your question, one mentioned the need to
> be "very
> carefull" with rm, what they did not say is you can wipe out your
> complete
> system with rm and its options.
> I would strongly advise you to use 'mc' the linux answer to
> midnight-commander.
> You will have more oversight as to what you are deleting and will
> not be faced
> with the same problem we saw here a few days ago when someone asked
> how he
> could recover his system after he made a mistake with rm -rf.
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matthew Stapleton
>
> --
> Regards Richard
> pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
>
>
>
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next reply other threads:[~2002-06-30 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-30 10:04 Matthew Stapleton [this message]
2002-06-30 10:16 ` recursively removing directories Richard Adams
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2002-06-30 1:44 Matthew Stapleton
2002-06-30 1:50 ` Joseph Jackson
2002-06-30 6:57 ` cr
2002-06-30 8:26 ` Richard Adams
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