command line switch to delete non-empty dir

[J-Tek]

Hey,

What's the rm switch to remove a directory that's not empty?

[scanez]

rm -r directory_name

the -r flag means recursive, as can be seen from "man rm"

Have fun
SC

[J-Tek]

yea,

but it asks if I want to descend into EVERY directory... It gets annoying after a while.

is there a better way.

mv dir_name 2Trash?

where's the Trash_Dir?

[camelrider]

rm -rf

Be careful!

For more information:
man rm

[dvdnut]

aye

rm -rf <dir name>

will work, but only if the user created the directory and subsequent files

else root will need to do it.

aye also be careful as it wont prompt you to say yes with the f switch