Re: rm

1999-03-16 Thread Christopher Hinds
This is clearly off-topic , please do not post to this group unless\ the question is about *Java on Linux*. Cheers Chris Ozer Irfan wrote: hello in linux , how delete a directorie wich content many files ? rm -f * is not valid. He say too long list Help me. Thanks

Re: rm

1999-03-16 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Ozer Irfan wrote: > hello > > in linux , how delete a directorie wich content many files ? > rm -f * is not valid. > He say too long list This list is for java AND Linux: you're out of order as your question has nothing to do with java. Even the connexion with Linux is moo

Re: rm

1999-03-16 Thread Andreas Rueckert
Hi! On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 Ozer Irfan wrote: >hello > >in linux , how delete a directorie wich content many files ? >rm -f * is not valid. >He say too long list Go to the parent directory and try rm -Rf Ciao, Andreas -- To UNS

Re: rm

1999-03-16 Thread Thomas Koehler
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 02:08:30PM +0100, Ozer Irfan wrote: > Hello > how delete the content of a directorie with many files ? > > I use rm -rf * > but I have the message : parameter too long > I'm not root. Try this: find . -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} \; > Thanks. > > Irfan HTH, Thomas --