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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:12:44 -0700
From:      Chip <chip@wiegand.org>
To:        "PetBuilder" <petbuilder@mediaone.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Removing Full Directories
Message-ID:  <0110271112442F.96094@chip.wiegand.org>
In-Reply-To: <003601c15f0b$e824f660$77a44a42@home>
References:  <003001c15f0a$39466170$77a44a42@home> <20011027121055.B22280@dan.emsphone.com> <003601c15f0b$e824f660$77a44a42@home>

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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" <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
> To: "PetBuilder" <petbuilder@mediaone.net>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> 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

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