Deleting a directory

[Antonio Olivares]

--- Ali Helmy <alihelmy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey mates,
> 
> I created a directory under root account in
> /usr/directory, but now i want
> to delete it... if i try deleting it through the
> command line, it wont allow
> me, because directory is not empty, and with gaim's
> file browser, i cant
> delete it because i dont have root priv...
> 
> so is there some way i can delete a dir from the
> command line even though it
> is not empty? or is there some way to give the gaim
> file browser root
> privelages?
> 
> --
> A. Helmy
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become super user 
$su -
pswd: ****
# rm -rf /yourdirectory you want to remove

in your case
# rm -rf /usr/directory?? whatever name it has

Best Regards,

Antonio

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