Deleting a directory

[Danny Ciarniello]

Ali Helmy wrote:

> Hey mates,
>
> I created a directory under root account in /usr/directory, but now i 
> want to delete it... if i try deleting it through the command line, it 
> wont allow me, because directory is not empty, and with gaim's file 
> browser, i cant delete it because i dont have root priv...
>
> so is there some way i can delete a dir from the command line even 
> though it is not empty? or is there some way to give the gaim file 
> browser root privelages?
>
> -- 
> A. Helmy 

rm -rf <directoryname>

-r : recurse
-f : force

Be careful!

Dan.