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Author: Josef Lowder
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: What is the correct command syntax to remove a directory and contents?

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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