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can't i delte folder at one stretch through ssh?

when i delting folder then i am getting below meesage;after deleting sub folders i am able to delete main folder;i am doing through SSH.

"please make sure that the folder is empty before deleting it"

can't i delte folder at one stretch?

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Jon_Ferguson

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chaitu chaitu

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what is "man rm"???

pjedmond

man rm

gives you the manual entry for the rm (remove command)

man man

gives you the manual entry for the man command. A manual entry exists for most linux command and is a valuable reference on any linux system.

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chaitu chaitu

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this command is enough

rm -rdf /root/org/apache/jsp

pjedmond

or

rm -Rf /root/org/apache/jsp

if you want to use 1 less letter:)

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chaitu chaitu

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in this directory /root/org/apache/jsp if i want to delete only class files then

rm -Rf /root/org/apache/jsp *.class

pjedmond

rm /root/org/apache/jsp/*.class

will delete only .class files and it will prompt you for each file to delete (Y/N)

to delete all of the *.class files without prompting:

rm -Rf /root/org/apache/jsp/*.class

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pjedmond

Ooops - recursive not required for this one, so to delete all of the *.class files without prompting:

rm -f /root/org/apache/jsp/*.class

is sufficient:)

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