[plug] /Newbie - Removing non empty directories

Steve Grasso steveg at calm.wa.gov.au
Tue May 23 11:22:16 WST 2000


> 
> How do you remove non empty directories in Linux?

Ummmm....use with care, but from the parent dir I use 

rm -rf ./dirname 

which means I need to explicitly name the dir I want to recursively blow away
to minimise the chance of stuffing up.

Regards,
Steve




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