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
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