---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Varuna Seneviratna <varunaseneviratna@xxxxxxxxx> Date: 10 May 2011 05:49 Subject: Fwd: How to remove a directory which has other directories in it? To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Varuna Seneviratna <varunaseneviratna@xxxxxxxxx> Date: 10 May 2011 05:40 Subject: How to remove a directory which has other directories in it? To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I Downloaded tomcat6 core and uncompressed using the tar utility and the result was apache-tomcat-6.0.32.Now I want to remove it. When going through the Graphical mode to the Downloads directory and try to delete it it says permission denied. When trying to use the rmdir command as root the message is that the directory is not empty.How to remove a directory which has many files in it from the command line or through the graphical mode to which normally the message you get is permission denied ? >From Professorrmd through the Fedora Forum General Support Section(http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1469594#post1469594) If you want to delete the fodler with its contents, do the following as root rm -rf folder_name This will delete everything. Just an after thought - if you want the system to ask for confirmation before deleting, leave out 'f' in the command above -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
