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Date:      Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:34:13 -0800
From:      Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net>
Subject:   Re: Deleting directories
Message-ID:  <200509110934.27931.akbeech@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200509111021.41125.remegius@comcast.net>
References:  <200509111021.41125.remegius@comcast.net>

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On Sunday 11 September 2005 09:21 am, Rem P Roberti wrote:
> How does one go about deleting directories and their contents?  RMDIR will
> only delete empty directories.
>
Try:

rm -R /path/to/dir

Beech

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