Use the -r (recursive) option to rm. that will allow you to delete directories and files or other directories which are contained within. e.g you have a directory called foo which has files in it, rm -r foo and all the files and the directory will be deleted. if you don't want to be prompted for every file, add the -f (force) option to rm. e.g rm -rf foo Regards aaron On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 05:44:11PM +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > Hi all, > > I've tried to delete a directory that has some files in it using the rm > command. > > I've took a look in the man page for rm and it tells there that: > -d, --directory unlink directory, even if non-empty (super-user > only) > > I've was logged with the root account, but after typing the following > command: > > rm -d database > > it asked me if I want to delete the file "database" and after answering y, > it told me that it can't delete the file because it is a directory. > > I've seen in the man page that rmdir can't delete directories that are not > empty. > > Can you tell me what is wrong? > > Thanks. > > > Teddy Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/ > Mail: orasnita at home.ro > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- +----------------------------------------------------------+ / |\ _,,,---,,_ /| / /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ / | / |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' / | / '---''(_/--' `-'\_) / | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | | Aaron Howell Kitten Internet | | | aaron at kitten.net.au Internet consultancy, | | | Phone: +61-417-625550 System administration, | | | fax: +61-7-36010099 system design/integration. | | | icq: 6715521 http://www.kitten.net.au | | | | | | | + | | / | | / | | / | |/ +----------------------------------------------------------+
