On Sun, 10 May 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > On Sun, 10 May 1998, Keith wrote: > > > I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing > > a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am > > logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that > > works like deltree in dos. > > rm -r directoryname > > will recursively remove "directoryname" and any files or > directories in it. > WARNING WARNING WARNING > This is a dangerous command to run as root, because you can > destroy your system and make it unbootable (like doing "deltree c:\" in > dos) ... make absolutely sure you want to get rid of whatever's in that > tree, and that your system doesn't need any of that stuff to run... > > Will
Good point. It's actually a dangerous thing to do period. It's not a question of if you will one day trash crucial stuff, it's when. I reccoment you make up a ~/recycle directory or something like it and then use mv -R whatever ~/tmp. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | > | PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey | > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | > | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | > | --The Barenaked Ladies, "Blame It On Me" | > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
