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