Subject: Re: how to delete a directory tree...
To: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/27/2000 22:00:17
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 01:38:20PM -0400, David Woyciesjes wrote:
> I' looking for the command to delete a directory (and all of it's files and
> subdirectories) in one stroke... The only thing I've found so far is using
> 'rm' and 'rmdir' in each directory. There's gotta be something easier...

rm -rf foo

'man rm'

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