[wplug] removing directories
John R R Leavitt
jrrl at steampunk.com
Mon Aug 27 13:05:22 EDT 2001
rm -rf <dirname>
-r for recursive and -f for force.
-John.
Weber, Larry A wrote:
>The process of building and installing new programs or libraries usually
>involves the creation of many temporary directories. Is there an easy way
>to delete these directories after I complete the installation. (Something
>like windows, deltree).
>
>As root I have tried rmdir and rm -d, neither of which will remove a
>directory containing a file. rm -r works but prompts me before deleting
>every file. I also noticed that rm asks me to confirm every delete. I
>thought it would only do that with the -i option.
>
>I have found a file titled 'core' in my home directory and another in my
>/root directory, different dates and sizes. They are large files 2 to 8
>meg. I don't know what created them. Can they be removed?
>
>(Distro is RH7.1)
>
>-laweber
>
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