Re: A couple of quick questions (PASE commands, and rapidly deleting an IFS directory tree -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: A couple of quick questions (PASE commands, and rapidly deleting an IFS directory tree
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 09:06:16 -0600
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On 11/23/18 6:52 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

And second, suppose I have an IFS directory, "/foo"; suppose it contains a
large tree of subdirectories. What's the fastest way to get rid of everything
in "/foo" (with or without getting rid of "/foo" itself)?

rm -rf /foo/*

That will delete everything inside /foo but leave foo in place.

david

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