Re: How to delete a large directory

Michael Osten <mosten-CQFAP1yJWv5Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.aclug.linux-help
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On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 20:09, John Goerzen wrote:
> That's not the normal rm behavior, but some distributions do force that on
> you.
> 
> Try rm -rf dirname.  That means "I *REALLY* mean it", so be careful :-)

Yes, really careful.  I once deleted /etc on a production box because I
was sleepy.

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Michael Osten


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