On 16 May 2012 17:34, Craig A. Berry <craigbe...@mac.com> wrote:
> On May 16, 2012, at 06:34 AM, Nicholas Clark <n...@ccl4.org> wrote:

...

> 5: What's the DCL equivalent of rm -rf? Is it really a Perl 1-liner with
> File::Path::remove_tree()?
>
>
> The Perl one-liner works but is of course very slow.  If you are on 8.4 (do
> "show system/noproc" to check) then "delete/tree" is available.  Something
> like "delete/tree [.blead...]*.*;*" should wipe out the blead directory and
> all its children.

IIRC you can also use backup with the null device:

BACKUP/DELETE [.blead...]*.*;* NL:a.b/SAVE_SET

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