Re: deleting files

From: Herbert Pophal (pophal_at_zrz.tu-berlin.de)
Date: 10/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:16:26 +0200

Ivan Marsh wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:21:30 +0200, Herbert Pophal wrote:
>
>
>>Ivan Marsh wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:25:08 -0700, Kilo Bravo wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Is there a command that will delete directories that are not empty?
>>>
>>>rm -rf <directory>
>>>
>>>BE VERY CAREFUL! It will do exactly what you tell it to do, it will ask
>>>no questions and it will show no mercy.
>>
>>The -f option is optional.
>
>
> It's not if you don't want it to prompt for any reason.
>
I meant:

rm -rf is, as you wrote, unforgivingly.
rm -r prompts and let one react.

Just for clarification.

Herbert

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