Subject: Re: How do I delete an empty directory?
To: Jasper Wallace <jasper@navaho.co.uk>
From: Laurent DOMISSE <domisse@credm.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 11/17/1997 16:48:10 
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Jasper Wallace wrote:

> at the bottom of the man page for unlink there is a refrence to rmdir(2) in
> the 'see also' section. it does exactly what you want ;-)
>

The usual way to delete a directory is to use : rmdir <dir>
if you want to delete a dir with files inside , use rm -r  <dir>


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Jasper Wallace wrote:
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<P>at the bottom of the man page for unlink there is a refrence to rmdir(2)
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<BR>the 'see also' section. it does exactly what you want ;-)
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The usual way to delete a directory is to use :&nbsp;rmdir &lt;dir>
<BR>if you want to delete a dir with files inside , use rm -r&nbsp; &lt;dir>
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