Re: removing directories even they are not empty
Martin Stricker <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:14:05 +0200
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"M. Zabtoo" wrote: > > I have done a great expreiment with linux 8, installation and > uninstallatoin of so many softwares. but it leave me with lot of > directories and now i want to delete them at all. Is thier any way to > delete them even they are full. Yes, use rm -r /path/to/directory rm -rf /path/to/directory The first will ask for each file to delete, the latter will just silently delete them. Warning: There is no (easy) undelete, and no reecycle bin! You need to have sufficient privileges for the files and directories, I guess you need to be root. *Be careful*! Best regards, Martin Stricker -- Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ Linux Migration Project: http://www.linux-migration.org/ Red Hat Linux 8.0 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/ -- Psyche-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list