[ale] Deleting files

Michael B Golden naugrim at juno.com
Sun Oct 17 00:38:25 EDT 1999


On Sat, 16 Oct 1999 21:04:17 -0400 "Silveira, Damien"
<Damien.Silveira at EmergingSolutions.com> writes:
>Newbie question:
>
>Is there an easy way to delete an entire directory tree???

rm -r <directory_name>

For example, to delete /junk/garbage/* you would type rm -r /junk/garbage
and it will recursively delete it all for you.

Michael golden
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