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

James

I like using the following command in QSH. You can put a CL wrapper program around it for convenience.

rm -r -f /SomeDirectoryNameHere

Thanx, PLA

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).

--
JHHL


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