[CLUE-Tech] Need help with rmdir

[Chris K. Chew]

Try something like:

rm -fR /tmp/dirB

Chris
  -----Original Message-----
  From: clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us
[mailto:clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us]On Behalf Of Gary Threlkeld
  Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 12:42 PM
  To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
  Subject: [CLUE-Tech] Need help with rmdir


  I have several subdiretories in a tree that need to be deleted.
  Because of the number of files/directories I don't want
  to delete individually if possible.

  Example:
                  /tmp
      /dirA                /dirB
                      /dirB1    /dirB2    ...

  I want to delete all of branch /tmp/dirB.

  I am running RedHat 7.3 and have tried

  rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /tmp/dirB

  The response is to accept the command, returning
  to the command prompt without error but non of the
  directories are deleted.

  Am I misunderstanding that it is possible to delete
  non-empty directories?

  Thanks,

  Gary Threlkeld
  gthrelk at attbi.com

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