[CLUE-Tech] Need help with rmdir

[Gary Threlkeld]

Thanks Chris - That seems to have been my problem. I knew
it must be a simple answer. 

I assumed that to manipulate directories that I had to use 
the "rmdir" command and that "rm" could only be used
on individual files within a directory.

Thanks for taking time to help a newbie!

Gary Threlkeld
gthrelk at attbi.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chris K. Chew 
  To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us 
  Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 12:48 PM
  Subject: RE: [CLUE-Tech] Need help with rmdir


  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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