On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 11:10:45AM -0400, 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" but watch out especially when using it as root. As a dos user I was advised to do a "dir dirname/*.*" before I did a "del dirname/*.*". Would doing a "ls -R" show the directories and files such that one could reliably predict what "rm -R" will do? The command line could be edited to substitute the "rm" for the "ls". Perhaps this would help avoid disasters to some extent -- unless one fouls up the command line editing. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux i386 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
