From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 27 11: 6:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB2A37B401 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id A7B64D3F00AA; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:06:46 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Chip To: "PetBuilder" Subject: Re: Removing Full Directories Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:12:44 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: References: <003001c15f0a$39466170$77a44a42@home> <20011027121055.B22280@dan.emsphone.com> <003601c15f0b$e824f660$77a44a42@home> In-Reply-To: <003601c15f0b$e824f660$77a44a42@home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0110271112442F.96094@chip.wiegand.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 27 October 2001 10:22, PetBuilder wrote: > Thank You very much. Worked great. I kept looking for something in 'rmdir' > > Craig Rose > Web-Zonic, Inc. A word of warning: be VERY careful with rm -rf, if you mistakenly remove the wrong directory, any directory including all the root directories - its GONE, say bye-bye to whatever was there. -- Chip > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Nelson" > To: "PetBuilder" > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 10:10 AM > Subject: Re: Removing Full Directories > > In the last episode (Oct 27), PetBuilder said: > > Is there a way to remove directories that have data in them without > > having to go to each directory and individually remove all data? > > rm -rf > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message