Re: How to delete a large directory

bruce <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Apr 2003 21:28:50 -0500

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On Monday 21 April 2003 08:10 pm, you wrote:

> SHORT ANSWER:  mc
>
> a)  open an xterm
> b)  mc
> c)  follow the tree to the directory you want to delete.  Use su if
> it is outside         your /home dir.
> d)  F8
> e)  "Directory is not empty.  Delete recursively?"
> f)  y
> g)  enter
I should have though of mc - I use it extensively.  The rm -rf * did 
what I wanted and I'm sure mc would have also.

Thanks.
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