Deleting a directory

[Cameron Simpson]

On 27Mar2006 11:55, Danny Ciarniello <Dan_Ciarniello at telus.net> wrote:
| rm -rf <directoryname>
| 
| -r : recurse
| -f : force
| 
| Be careful!

You know that "-f" and "be careful" are opposing actions?
Skip the -f and proceed. Oh, and unalias "rm"; RH systems ship
with an alias to always supply a -i option to "rm", and that
in turn promotes this dangerous overuse of the -f option.
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