Re: perl question
Mike Egglestone wrote:
> What would be a nice command to remove a dirtory that had files in it?
rm -rf directory
> Even better.... what would be a nice command to delete all files
> in one directory... (leaving the directory intact)
rm -rf directory/*
which will delete everything in a directory, including subdirectories; or
find . -type f | xargs rm -f
to delete all files in a directory or its subdirectories, but keep the
directory structure intact.
Perl isn't required.
Craig
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