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Re: Deleting a whole subtree in the IFS quickly and easily?

On Thu, 27 May 2004, James H H Lampert wrote:

> Does anybody know of a quick and easy way to delete an entire subtree in
> the IFS? I tried setting up a test directory, then doing a RMDIR <dirname>
> UNLINK(*YES), but it didn't work. (It didn't even work on a subdirectory
> of my test directory, that only contains a single file).

supposing that the directory you want to delete is called /tmp/test (which
may have many subdirectories below test), then in qshell do:

cd /tmp
rm -r test

James Rich

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