rmdir when directory is not empty

[Daniel B. Thurman]

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>Systemhouse
>Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 10:06 AM
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>Subject: Re: rmdir when directory is not empty
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>On 12/20/05, kebbelj at scripting-solutions.com
><kebbelj at scripting-solutions.com> wrote:
>> In the GUI, I can trash a non-empty directory with a 
>right-click and Move to Trash. What command line option would 
>I use with rmdir to remove a non-empty directory?
>
>
>The best way to nuke a directory is -
>
># Delete the files.
>su - -c "find /path/to/dirName -type f -exec rm -f {} \;"
>
># Delete the directory paths.
>su - -c "rmdir -p /path/to/dirName"

OR rm -fr /dir/dir-delete-me

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>HTH/Bill
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