rm command
Nelson Garcia
garcian002 at hawaii.rr.com
Wed Jun 6 13:11:37 PDT 2001
Isn't it capital "R"?
Anyway, excellent point about being careful. Just learn from my mistake...
A while back I was testing a webmail application called "vamp" and decided
that I wanted to delete it. The directory and subdirectories had very long
names such as vamp-1.2.3-xxx, you get the idea. So I got lazy and used wild
cards.
Let's just say that "rm -Rf /va*" is NOT the same as "rm -Rf va*", you
can guess what happened...
What I do now is type "rm -R <path>" and let it prompt me a few times until
I am satisfied that is traversing the correct path, then I CTL-C and repeat
the command with the "f" parameter. Too paranoid, I know. You could also
type slower.
Nelson.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Buecker" <rbuecker at darkscape.net>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at maile.hi.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 01:40 AM
Subject: [luau] Re: rm command
rm -rf /path/to/directory/you/want/deleted
make sure you aren't in the directory or any sub directory or else it won't
be removed
and of course, be careful :>
----- Original Message -----
From: Julio
To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:36 AM
Subject: [luau] rm command
how can I remove all the files and subdirectories in a directory without
being prompted everytime and without getting the message directory not empty
under linux, I have tried all the options listed under rmdir--help but can't
do it.
thanks in advance
Julio
If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing!
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