From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Sep 9 01:49:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA07342 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 01:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from support.euronet.nl (support.euronet.nl [194.134.32.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA07313 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 01:49:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sake@localhost) by support.euronet.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id KAA08906; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 10:43:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Sake Blok Message-Id: <199709090843.KAA08906@support.euronet.nl> Subject: Re: rmdir In-Reply-To: <341501CF.13B8@seychelles.net> from Muditha Gunatilake at "Sep 9, 97 11:59:11 am" To: muditha@seychelles.net Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 10:43:23 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: sake@nl.euro.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > I have alot of sub directories and loads of junk under /home/abc. I want > to remove all that from /home/abc.....what command can I use without > having to emty each directory. rmdir does not help. You can remove a whole directory tree with the command rm -r More features of rm can be found with man rm. Please use freebsd-questions for non-ISP-specific freebsd-questions the next time. Sake -- Sake Blok * * EuroNet Internet Client Services Team * * Herengracht 208 - 214 * 1016 BS Amsterdam E-mail: sake@nl.euro.net * Tel: +31 20 625 61 61