rm -rf will get you what you need I think.

Sean

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, John (EBo) David wrote:

> Bob Holtzman wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > Anyone know how to get "rm -r" or "rm -r" to execute *non*interactively?
> > This is supposed to be the default behavior, but isn't on my box. I'm
> > running RH7.2 but it did the same thing on my old RH6.0.
> 
> it is likely aliased...
> 
> try running "\rm -r ..."  the "\" tells the shell to exececute the
> command and NOT preprocess it.  Hopes this is what you mean...
> 
> > Any help would be appreciated as I get tired of sitting here half the day
> > clicking "y" endlessly.
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