* recursively removing directories
@ 2002-06-30 1:44 Matthew Stapleton
2002-06-30 1:50 ` Joseph Jackson
2002-06-30 8:26 ` Richard Adams
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From: Matthew Stapleton @ 2002-06-30 1:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-newbie
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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* Re: recursively removing directories
2002-06-30 1:44 recursively removing directories 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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From: Joseph Jackson @ 2002-06-30 1:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Matthew Stapleton; +Cc: linux-newbie
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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* Re: recursively removing directories
2002-06-30 1:50 ` Joseph Jackson
@ 2002-06-30 6:57 ` cr
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From: cr @ 2002-06-30 6:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joseph Jackson, Matthew Stapleton; +Cc: linux-newbie
On Sunday 30 June 2002 13:50, Joseph Jackson wrote:
> 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
> >
>
> Like this rm -rf /whatever the -r is ofcourse recursive and the -f is
> force is it won't ask you.
>
... and be VERY CAREFUL using it!!!!
(man rm will give you the syntax).
cr
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* Re: recursively removing directories
2002-06-30 1:44 recursively removing directories Matthew Stapleton
2002-06-30 1:50 ` Joseph Jackson
@ 2002-06-30 8:26 ` Richard Adams
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From: Richard Adams @ 2002-06-30 8:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Matthew Stapleton, linux-newbie
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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* Re: recursively removing directories
@ 2002-06-30 10:04 Matthew Stapleton
2002-06-30 10:16 ` Richard Adams
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From: Matthew Stapleton @ 2002-06-30 10:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pa3gcu; +Cc: linux-newbie
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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* Re: recursively removing directories
2002-06-30 10:04 Matthew Stapleton
@ 2002-06-30 10:16 ` Richard Adams
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From: Richard Adams @ 2002-06-30 10:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Matthew Stapleton; +Cc: linux-newbie
On Sunday 30 June 2002 10:04, Matthew Stapleton wrote:
> 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....
Ok, well you can read a tar.gz file first with 'zless' you can then navigate
thro' it with the search option which is '/' an example would be;
zless foo.tar.gz
/INSTALL
Now you will see all instances of the word INSTALL, ctrl-l goes to the next
instance.
man less will explain.
Another hint to remove dirs is go into the directory to be deleted, then use
rm -rf * and or rm -rf .* then cd .. rmdir <foo>
That way is a safer method but caution is the word.
>
> Matthew
>
--
Regards Richard
pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
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