Well, "rm -rf DIRECTORY" will kill it, but rather than just blindly doing
that, you might consider using the FIND command and searching for certain
files (-iname "*.jpg) or something.
ChatGPT should be able to give you the proper FIND syntax with -exec
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Thanks,
Alexander
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2024, 10:09 Michael via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> I got a problem. a while ago I accidentally pulled a directory into
> another directory and copied all the directories into the new directory. I
> THINK some of the files in the directory were my pictures. Well, I'm
> running out of room and need to delete those directories. Could someone
> show me how to do this?
>
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