rmdir when directory is not empty
Mogens Kjaer
mk at crc.dk
Tue Dec 20 18:24:41 UTC 2005
Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
>>OR rm -fr /dir/dir-delete-me
>
>
> That won't work on directories that have tens of thousands of files.
Why not?
As long as you don't do a:
rm -f /dir/folder-with-many-files/*
that, of course won't work, but
rm -rf /dir/folder-with-many-files
should work.
Mogens
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