On Tuesday 20 December 2005 13:20, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: >> OR rm -fr /dir/dir-delete-me > >That won't work on directories that have tens of thousands of files. >-- >WC -Sx- Jones | http://ccsh.us/ | Open Source Consulting Oh? That must mean that all those kernel src dir leftovers I've cleaned over the years are still around then. But I can't find them. The pony trick is to use, as root, rm -fR name-of-directory For a built kernel tree, it takes about 10-12 seconds on an XP2800 athlon, and I'd imagine there are well over 5000 files in that tree once built. But gone they are. Note that the last time I read the manpage on rm, the uppercase and lowercase R/r's had different meanings. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should use this address: <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
