No, not to destroy any evidence, just to be sure not to delete 
anything "higher" than the target directory. 

Thanks for the guidance. 


On Saturday 07 January 2006 07:41 pm, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Josef Lowder wrote:
> > What is the correct command syntax to (safely) remove
> > a directory and its entire contents?
>
> I use: rm -rf /path/to/directory
>
> What do you mean by "safely"? Do you mean to destroy any evidence?
>
>
>  Jeremy C. Reed
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