From: Joseph Jackson <skoidat@lvcm.com>
To: Matthew Stapleton <matthewstapleton@juno.com>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: recursively removing directories
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 18:50:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D1E63F7.1050200@lvcm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020629.214414.-257403.0.matthewstapleton@juno.com
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'.
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew Stapleton
>
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Like this rm -rf /whatever the -r is ofcourse recursive and the -f is force is
it won't ask you.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-30 1:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-30 1:44 recursively removing directories Matthew Stapleton
2002-06-30 1:50 ` Joseph Jackson [this message]
2002-06-30 6:57 ` cr
2002-06-30 8:26 ` Richard Adams
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2002-06-30 10:04 Matthew Stapleton
2002-06-30 10:16 ` Richard Adams
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