Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:03:50 -0500 (EST) From: Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: "Dennis C. Prather" <dennis@productivity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: directories Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0102091401560.4766-100000@onyx> In-Reply-To: <NEBBLBOMGLHCCGMMOIPGIEJFDAAA.dennis@productivity.org>
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On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Dennis C. Prather wrote: > Is there a way to delete a directory and all of the contents inside of it? > When try to use rmdir it always says "Directory not empty". The man page > says nothing about a recursive way to do it. This is not a FreeBSD-specific question. But I will try "rm -rf dir". It should delete everything under dir by force (-f) and recursively (-r). Be very careful. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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