you could try "rm -rf foo/" it's always worked for me ----- Original Message ----- From: "BMT Solutions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 11:00 AM Subject: [newbie] rmdir > Good Morning: > With the rmdir command, can your use it to delete everything, with the > directory full. Or do you have to open the directory and remove each > contents of the subdir and then the subdirs and then the directory > itself. I currently do it this way but it is very time consuming. I tried > rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty put it did not work. I went to rmdir > --help and the man pages and did not see away to force to remove a > directory when it is not empty. I did see this in the man page: > > -p, --parents > remove DIRECTORY, then try to remove each > directory component of > that path name. E.g., `rmdir -p a/b/c' is similar to `rmdir > a/b/c > a/b a'. > > I tried the -p flag but I did not get it to work. Thanks for your input. > > Bob > > > > >
