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Subject: Re: Deleting directories
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On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 18:21, Rem P Roberti wrote:
> How does one go about deleting directories and their contents?  RMDIR will 
> only delete empty directories.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rem

Try man rm

Rob