[linux-help] Re: How to delete a large directory

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's not the normal rm behavior, but some distributions do force that on
you.

Try rm -rf dirname.  That means "I *REALLY* mean it", so be careful :-)

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 07:56:14PM -0500, bruce wrote:
> I wish to delete a large directory that contains 263 directories and 
> 1400+ files.  
>  rm  -r   *  asks if I want to descend into each subdirectory and then 
> asks if I want to remove a file or a directory.  I would have to answer 
> "y" 2000 times.
> 
> rmdir tells me that the directories are not empty.
> 
> There has to be an easy way to do this, but I can't find it.
> 
> Any help?
> bruce
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