E.L. Meijer Eric wrote:
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:00:01PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 4 files out of
a directory other than the command find . -exec rm {} \;
will rm -r directory be as quick?
It will actually be much quicker
Hi
does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 4 files out of
a directory other than the command find . -exec rm {} \;
will rm -r directory be as quick?
thanx
On 23-Nov-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 4 files out of
a directory other than the command find . -exec rm {} \;
will rm -r directory be as quick?
rm -rf *
Just make sure that you are in the correct
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Peter Ross wrote:
On 23-Nov-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 4 files out of
a directory other than the command find . -exec rm {} \;
will rm -r directory be as quick?
rm -rf *
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
zdrysd will rm -r directory be as quick?
rm -rf works for me ..
the -f wont prompt for anything..dont use it unless yer real confident you
wanna delete it :)
nate
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Vice
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:00:01PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 4 files out of
a directory other than the command find . -exec rm {} \;
will rm -r directory be as quick?
It will actually be much quicker (you may need to add
Lindsay Allen writes:
| rm -rf *
|
| That's something I *never* do. Why? Because it puts rm -rf * in my
| history buffer which means that one slip can lead to disaster. So I
| use rm -rf /here/there/some/place/* which at least means I cannot blow
| away my whole file system if I make an
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:36:55AM +, Martyn Pearce wrote:
Lindsay Allen writes:
| rm -rf *
|
| That's something I *never* do. Why? Because it puts rm -rf * in my
| history buffer which means that one slip can lead to disaster. So I
| use rm -rf /here/there/some/place/* which at
Peter Ross wrote:
On 23-Nov-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 4 files out of
a directory other than the command find . -exec rm {} \;
will rm -r directory be as quick?
rm -rf *
If you're new enough to
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