Re: How to remove a non-empty directory

2004-03-02 Thread rfa
Hi all folks, Kindly advise where can I find the small program 'midnight commander' for FreeBSD. OR what command line shall be applied on FBSD to remove a non-empty directory together with its content TIA B.R. satimis try this: #cd /usr/ports #make search name = mc | more [you will

Re: How to remove a non-empty directory

2004-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi all folks, Kindly advise where can I find the small program 'midnight commander' for FreeBSD. OR what command line shall be applied on FBSD to remove a non-empty directory together with its content I have never tried anything called midnight commander, but you might check in the

Re: How to remove a non-empty directory

2004-03-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Jerry and other folks, Lot of thanks for your advice on the captioned question and time spent. I learn an alternative in removing a non-empty directory. mc/midnight commander is a small program. It moves and removes/deletes directory including sub-directories and files at the same. It

How to remove a non-empty directory

2004-03-01 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all folks, Kindly advise where can I find the small program 'midnight commander' for FreeBSD. OR what command line shall be applied on FBSD to remove a non-empty directory together with its content TIA B.R. satimis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: How to remove a non-empty directory

2004-03-01 Thread Dan Peck
Midnight Commander is available in the ports tree under the subdirectory misc/mc (probably /usr/ports/misc/mc) Or you can add the -r (think recursive) option to rm and it will attempt to remove the heirarchy, prompting for your ok at each direcotry. Adding -f (think forced) makes rm do this

Re: How to remove a non-empty directory

2004-03-01 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 22:21:24 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all folks, Kindly advise where can I find the small program 'midnight commander' for FreeBSD. /usr/ports/misc/mc OR what command line shall be applied on FBSD to remove a non-empty directory together with its

RE: How to remove a non-empty directory

2004-03-01 Thread fbsd_user
PROTECTED] Subject: How to remove a non-empty directory Hi all folks, Kindly advise where can I find the small program 'midnight commander' for FreeBSD. OR what command line shall be applied on FBSD to remove a non-empty directory together with its content TIA B.R. satimis

Re: How to remove a non-empty directory

2004-03-01 Thread Quintin Riis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You have the ports tree installed, yes? It contains makefiles for over ten thousand applications. Try # cd /usr/ports/ # make search key=midnight Also, read the manual pages and the handbook before asking questions, please. `man rm' should help you.