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To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, ben@cahostnet.net,
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From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
Subject: Re: deleting whole directory w/ files
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:50:48 GMT
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> rm -rf *
that is if you are in the directory !
otherwise rm -rf directory_name

be careful !

CLiff
> 
> > How can I delete a directory with sub-directories and files.  I tried the rmdir -p
> options
> and rm -dfv options and it didn't work.  What will be the full corect syntax.
> > 
> > Thanks...
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