rmdir when directory is not empty

[Mogens Kjaer]

Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
>>OR rm -fr /dir/dir-delete-me
> 
> 
> That won't work on directories that have tens of thousands of files.

Why not?

As long as you don't do a:

rm -f /dir/folder-with-many-files/*

that, of course won't work, but

rm -rf /dir/folder-with-many-files

should work.

Mogens

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