[plug] /Newbie - Removing non empty directories

[Mark Saxon]

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On 5/22/00, 10:19:53 PM, "Earnshaw, Mike" <earnshawm at wa.switch.aust.com> 
wrote regarding [plug] /Newbie - Removing non empty directories:


> List,

> How do you remove non empty directories in Linux?

> I have tried:

> rmdir * --ignore-fail-on-non-empty

> and

> rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty *

> also tried using specific directory names instead of *

> Neither worked. I appreciate the danger of -r, which I am **not** 
using.

> If I wanted to do this on a regular basis, typing in the above 
switches
> (assuming they worked) would be tedious (probably an intentional 
thing), can
> I set an alias up for this?

> Thanks

> 
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