Re: [expert] simple recursive delete from the command line?

[John Aldrich]

On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > 
> > how do I quickly delete a whole directory and everything it contains from
> > the command line.
> >...
> > #rm -r puts me in "do you really want to do this?" hell.
> 
> re-alias rm so it isn't set to that stupid/annoying/etc. rm -i!!!
> 
BAD IDEA!!!! Just do "rm -rf" from the command line, and it
won't prompt you any more. Really it's a BAD idea to change
the default behavior of RM -f!
        John