Octavian: You didn't read the man page very carefully. This is definitely covered there. rm -rf On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, 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 > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
