This needs to be done at root and very carefully or you'll be spending some
time restoring (or reinstalling) later. Know-what-a-mean-Vern?
Best of Luck!
Steve W.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete
> flupke wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Vic wrote:
> >
>
> > them all, issue a :
> > find / -type d -a -name .xvpics -exec rm -rf {} \;
> > and it will erase all of them without any confirmation prompt.
>
> Gee...and I thought I was out on a limb telling a newbie (for some
> things, if you ask the question it says a lot about whether you should
> know) about "rm -rf" (grin).
>
> Cheers --- Larry
>
