How to delete it?

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Mon Jul 22 07:24:06 EDT 2002


This is the long way of doing it, and it won't work if there are subdirectories in that directory. Passing the -r flag to rm is still the best way.
Greg


On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 07:04:00AM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> First follow the steps below.
> 
> 1.  go into the directory you want to purge and type:  rm *
>     (Remember this will remove all files and if there's anything you
>     want to keep, you can't because it's gone, gone, gone, gone!  You
>     can't "restore" anything, so be very, very, very sure you want to
>     delete something.)
> 
> 2.  type:  cd ..
> 
> 3.  type:  rmdir directory-name  (remember, this will remove the
>     directory from your hard drive, you can not restore it, so be
>     very, very, very, very sure you want to delete it!  Don't come
>     whining to us if you delete something you didn't want to delete.
>     We can't help you.) 
> 
> We've all deleted files we didn't want to delete, and it's a terrible
> experience, but it's part of the learning process.  Have fun! 
> 
> Ann P.
> 
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