Removing Directories, with files in it
James Mckenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 12 19:49:48 UTC 2004
>Mark Sargent wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> rmdir .directoryname that contains content in it, just informs me of the
>> fact, and I get no deleted directory. I know I saw how to do this somewhere,
>> just haven't found it again. lol..cheers.
>>
>> Mark Sargent.
>
>rm -rf dir_name
Word of WARNING: Make doubly sure that the directory is indeed the directory you want to remove, as this command is not reverseable/undoable. At best, it will be an inconvience, at worse, you will be rebuilding your system. I recommend running the print working directory (pwd) command before running the rm -rf <directory_name> command. I did not do this once and was lucky that I had a very recent (less than five minutes old) backup of the directory structure and files I just removed. Thank goodness for tar zcvf and a second hard drive.
James McKenzie
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