Re: How to delete a large directory
Michael Osten <mosten-CQFAP1yJWv5Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
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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. --------------------------- Michael Osten -- This is the [email protected] list. To unsubscribe, visit http://www.complete.org/cgi-bin/listargate-aclug.cgi