- What is the difference between rm -r and rm -f? - Super User
What do you mean they give the same result? rm -r emptydir removes that directory, rm -f emptydir does not These are two completely different command line options, each doing whatever its documentation says is doing
- rm: cannot remove `dir-name: Directory not empty - Super User
rm: cannot remove `dir-name': Directory not empty Ask Question Asked 1 year, 11 months ago Modified 1 year, 11 months ago
- find: -exec rm {} \; vs. -delete - why is the former widely . . .
The -exec rm is not recommendable on many systems, for reasons I gave - lack of support, or a desire to restrict process count "widely recommended" does not mean ideal for all circumstances, and failing to address that assumption seems irresponsible
- What does rm -R do? - Super User
1 The rm manpage says this : -r, -R, --recursive remove directories and their contents recursively So, for rm at least, both options have the same effect
- What is the equivalent of rm -rf in Powershell? - Super User
As we all know, on a *nix system, rm -rf some_directory removes some_directory and all files beneath it recursively, without asking for confirmation What is the equivalent of this command in Powershell?
- Whats the equivalent to rm -rf with Windows command?
What's the equivalent to 'rm -rf' with Windows command? Ask Question Asked 15 years, 1 month ago Modified 6 years, 10 months ago
- What does rm -rf do? - Super User
The rm command removes files The -r option will perform a recursive removal and the -f option will remove files without prompting you to confirm that you wish to have them removed, even if you would otherwise be prompted as to whether you wish to remove them due to the files permissions E g , if you type rm -rf somedirectory, the command will remove all files and subdirectories beneath the
- linux - How can I remove a directory with rm - rf? - Super User
I try to remove a folder with rm -rf foldername … but it says rm: cannot remove folder :is a directory What's wrong?
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