Re: [expert] simple recursive delete from the command line?

[Seak, Teng-Fong]

Gavin Clark wrote:

> how do I quickly delete a whole directory and everything it contains from
> the command line.
>
> I can do it easily from kfm and other GUI file browsers.
>
> but
>
> #rmdir won't work because the dir isn't empty
>
> and
>
> #rm -r puts me in "do you really want to do this?" hell.

rm -rf a_directory

     Take a look at "man ls" or a book about Unix/Linux.  This command is
very common and taught everywhere.