From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 11 17:34:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39DA516A41F for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:34:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: from vfemail.net (miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net [216.170.248.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BEEE43D46 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:34:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: (qmail 23340 invoked by uid 85); 11 Sep 2005 17:34:34 -0000 Received: from akbeech@gmail.com by mail.vfemail.net by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.75.1. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:. Processed in 1.375716 secs); 11 Sep 2005 17:34:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.200?) (alaska@vfemail.net@209.124.141.64) by miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 11 Sep 2005 17:34:33 -0000 From: Beecher Rintoul Organization: NorthWind Communications To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:34:13 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200509111021.41125.remegius@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <200509111021.41125.remegius@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1854363.GNtAH5JgA3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509110934.27931.akbeech@gmail.com> Cc: Rem P Roberti Subject: Re: Deleting directories X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:34:38 -0000 --nextPart1854363.GNtAH5JgA3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart1854363.GNtAH5JgA3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDJGqjVq19LUoGB+MRAoDJAJ9lcIg5+HQzci/THrJxHOBPbf87TwCfdyUQ 9s1KSTbCOLrekELJNjdE8Go= =G+g2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1854363.GNtAH5JgA3--