Re: Removing Files and Subdirectories

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

Please note that recursive rm's have a dark side, and become more
dangerous as one becomes more familiar with the command and type it more
quickly. In the "Admin Horror Stories" there is a separate section for
"Creative uses of rm(1)".

http://www2.hunter.com/~skh/humor/admin-horror.html (among many copies out
there).

I've personally found that if I never logged into my machines as root,
they would stay up forever.

eks

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Kara Pritchard wrote:

> 
> cd /home/joeb/
> rm -rf test_backup/ (removes test_backup and everything underneath)
> 
> or
> 
> cd /home/joeb/test_backup/
> rm -rf * (removes everything underneath, but keeps test_backup dir)
> 
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, joe bonansinga wrote:
> 
> > This may be a simple question, but I am still a newbie. What is the correct 
> > command to recursively remove files from subdirectories and then the 
> > directories themselves moving through a few levels without being prompted by 
> > interactive messages for each file.
> > Ie.
> > I want to remove all the files and subdirectories under
> > /home/joeb/test_backup/  all at once.
> > The test_backup directory contains numerous testfiles and subdirectories.
> > 
> > I hope this makes sense.
> > 
> > Joe Bonansinga
> > 
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