Re: 'Non-empty' directory deletion.

From: Richard Lyons (richard_at_the-place.net)
Date: 07/27/03

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    To: Adam Bogacki <afb@paradise.net.nz>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 23:29:38 +0100

    On Sunday 27 July 2003 01:01, Adam Bogacki wrote:
    > Hi, I'm trying to delete
    >
    > /home/adam/.enlightenment/themes/FossilsOfTheMachines
    >
    > but I can't get 'rmdir' to work on a full directory. Neither
    >
    > rmdir -r [filename]
    > rmdir s [filename] /or/
    > rmdir --ignore-non-empty-directory [filename]
    >
    > ... work.
    >
    > What am I missing here ?
    >

    Simply rm -R [directory] will remove the files and the directory,
    IIRC. 

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richard
> Adam Bogacki,
> afb@paradise.net.nz
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