RE: deleting directory
| On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 10:09:10PM -0800, ian wrote:
| > can an entire directory be deleted without deleting its
| contents first? if
| > so how?
|
| rm -r <dirname>
|
| BE CAREFUL! I'm sure a few people can tell horror stories of having
| to rebuild a box either they or some other adminluser did rm -rf / and
| toasted a box...
It seems to me that I've seem this recently (I don't know who to credit),
but is it not written that there are two types of *nix users?
Type 1: Those who have executed rm -rf /
Type 2: Those who haven't yet
:)
Brooks
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