From: Kristof Bastiaensen <kristof@...>
Date: 2004-04-18T21:34:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Delete a directory with all sub-directories an files

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:53:48 +0200, Dirk Einecke wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I would like to delete a directory. In this directory are other
> directories an files. So I have to delete this subdirectories an files
> at first. Now I search a good solution to solve this problem. My first
> idea was to look in the given directory and if there are subdirectories
> to look in this directories... Is this the right way? Is there a ready
> function for this little problem? Or has anybody written a function for
> it?
> 
> greetings
> Dirk Einecke

`rm -rf directory`
:-)