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Subject: Re: Delete IFS directories
From: James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 11:04:12 -0700 (MST)
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On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Werner Noll wrote:

Is there any method to delete (remove) directories with their contents by a
single command?


Yes.  From QSH type in:

cd /<top level directory you want to delete>
rm -rf *

super easy. No tricks, no games. If you wanted to delete everything in /home you do:

cd /home
rm -rf *

James Rich

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