> On Nov 4, 2014, at 5:08 PM, Anthony Jackman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Forgive me if this sounds simple. I am working on a Windows 7 machine and > have been playing with yoeman developed directories. Now that I feel > comfortable with that portion of nodejs, I would like to delete all those > "playground" directories, since the machine that I am working on is a > corporate owned asset. But when I use the command line "rmdir XXXXXXX /s", > it only goes so far into that project before windows tells me that the > filename is too long. I assume this is because of the many many duplicated > modules that a (yoeman) project creates and also the way that Windows deletes > files and folders. So, does anyone have another route that I can take to > remove these 'playground' directories without doing it by hand??
npm install -g rimraf rimraf XXXXXXX Windows' old APIs can't deal with new long names. Guess which tools still use the old APIs! But rimraf has your back -- it's a node module that uses the new APIs that node uses and can work without restrictions. -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/01FE07E0-0BEB-4EF5-8897-1E559144DA5B%40nbtsc.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
