From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 16:13:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C435E37B435 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:12:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2Q0CZ526889 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 01:12:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h68n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.68]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA06007 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 01:12:34 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 691 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Mar 2002 00:12:32 -0000 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 01:12:31 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Nick Lozinsky Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deleting folders that're not empty Message-ID: <20020326001230.GA682@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Nick Lozinsky , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200203260000.g2Q00UR07986@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> <3C9FBB51.46D7580D@wi.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C9FBB51.46D7580D@wi.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:05:37PM -0600, Nick Lozinsky wrote: > Hi, > > how do I delete a folder thats populated with other subfolders and > files, without going through each folder and deleting its contents, etc. > I know rmdir deletes a folder. rm -r folder_name -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message