This is the long way of doing it, and it won't work if there are subdirectories in that directory. Passing the -r flag to rm is still the best way. Greg On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 07:04:00AM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote: > Hi all, > > First follow the steps below. > > 1. go into the directory you want to purge and type: rm * > (Remember this will remove all files and if there's anything you > want to keep, you can't because it's gone, gone, gone, gone! You > can't "restore" anything, so be very, very, very sure you want to > delete something.) > > 2. type: cd .. > > 3. type: rmdir directory-name (remember, this will remove the > directory from your hard drive, you can not restore it, so be > very, very, very, very sure you want to delete it! Don't come > whining to us if you delete something you didn't want to delete. > We can't help you.) > > We've all deleted files we didn't want to delete, and it's a terrible > experience, but it's part of the learning process. Have fun! > > Ann P. > > -- > Ann K. Parsons > email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
