>Mark Sargent wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> rmdir .directoryname that contains content in it, just informs me of the >> fact, and I get no deleted directory. I know I saw how to do this somewhere, >> just haven't found it again. lol..cheers. >> >> Mark Sargent. > >rm -rf dir_name Word of WARNING: Make doubly sure that the directory is indeed the directory you want to remove, as this command is not reverseable/undoable. At best, it will be an inconvience, at worse, you will be rebuilding your system. I recommend running the print working directory (pwd) command before running the rm -rf <directory_name> command. I did not do this once and was lucky that I had a very recent (less than five minutes old) backup of the directory structure and files I just removed. Thank goodness for tar zcvf and a second hard drive. James McKenzie James McKenzie A Proud User of Linux!
