Re: deleting directories

From: David Hamilton (gdave44@hotmail.com)
Date: 12/01/01


>does any one know of a linux command i can use to delete a whol dir and
>every thing in it with out dleting it one folder ata time?
the -r flag in rm is recursive, so rm -r will remove recursively.
Be careful with this, because it will allow you to delete everything
in one fell swoop.
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