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Re: how do I delete not empty directories



On Sun, 10 May 1998, Keith wrote:

> I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing
> a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am
> logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that
> works like deltree in dos.

rm -rf

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